THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION
(Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias, O)

Director: Cao Hamburger
Release Date: 2006
Runtime: 110 minutes
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Language: Potugese, Yiddish, German with English subtitles
Rated: PG for thematic material, mild language, brief suggestive content, some violence and smoking.
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Synopsis:
In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro in their Volkswagen. While traveling to São Paulo, the couple explains to Mauro that they will travel on vacation and will leave Mauro with his grandfather Mótel.

Daniel promises to return before the first game of the Brazilian National Soccer Team in the Cup. The boy is left in Bom Retiro, a Jewish and Italian neighborhood, and waits for Mótel in front of his apartment. When the next door neighbor Shlomo arrives, he tells the boy that Mótel had just had a heart attack and died.

Alone and without knowing where his parents are, the boy is lodged by Shlomo and the Jewish community. Through the young neighbor Hanna, Mauro makes new friends, cheers for the Brazilian team and sees the movement of the police and militaries on the streets while waiting for his parents.