Central Station (1998)

Plot

Summaries

• An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

  —Fabio Ornelas <fabiornelas@zipmail.com.br>

• Dora, a dour old woman, works at a Rio de Janeiro central station, writing letters for customers and mailing them. She hates customers and calls them 'trash'. Josue is a 9-year-old boy who never met his father. His mother is sending letters to his father through Dora. When she dies in a car accident, Dora takes Josue and takes a trip with him to find his father.

  —Anonymous

• Dora, a retired teacher, spends her days in Rio De Janeiro's Central Station, writing, for a fee, letters for illiterate people. One of her customers is killed in an accident, leaving her 9-year-old son, Josue, to fend for himself. Dora decides to help Josue find a home but this will involve a lot more than she imagined.

  —grantss

• An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people at Rio de Janeiro's central station, Central do Brasil; and a young boy, whose mother has just died in a car accident, to Brazil's remote Northeast, in search for the father he never knew.

  —Fabio Ornelas <fabiornelas@zipmail.com.br>

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