Central Station (film)

Central Station
Theatrical release poster
PortugueseCentral do Brasil
Directed byWalter Salles
Screenplay by
Story byWalter Salles
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyWalter Carvalho
Edited byFelipe Lacerda
Music by
Production
companies
  • VideoFilmes
  • MACT Productions
Distributed by
  • Europa Filmes (Brazil)
  • Mars Distribution (France)
Release dates
  • 16 January 1998 (1998-01-16) (Switzerland)
  • 3 April 1998 (1998-04-03) (Brazil)
  • 2 December 1998 (1998-12-02) (France)
Running time
113 minutes
Countries
LanguagePortuguese
Budget$2.9 million[2]
Box office$22 million[3]

Central Station (Portuguese: Central do Brasil) is a 1998 road drama film directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra and Vinícius de Oliveira. The screenplay, adapted by João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein from a story by its director Walter Salles, tells the story of a young boy's friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman.

Montenegro's performance earned her international critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress (becoming the first and to date only Brazilian actress to ever be nominated in the lead actress category), while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.[4]

In 2015, the Brazilian Film Critics Association aka Abraccine voted Central Station the 11th greatest Brazilian film of all time, in its list of the 100 best Brazilian films.[5]

  1. ^ a b McCarthy, Todd (8 February 1998). "Central Station". Variety. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Central do Brasil (1998) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. ^ "A comercialização de um filme internacional: Central do Brasil". Asaeca.org (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  4. ^ "The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  5. ^ "Abraccine organiza ranking dos 100 melhores filmes brasileiros". Abraccine - Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Cinema (in Portuguese). 27 November 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2024.