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Central Station

  • 8.0 /10

  • 1042

  • 94%

Plot

An emotional 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.

Cast

Fernanda Montenegro as Isadora "Dora" Teixeira
Fernanda Montenegro

as Isadora "Dora" Teixeira

Vinícius de Oliveira as Josué Fontenele de Paiva
Vinícius de Oliveira

as Josué Fontenele de Paiva

Marília Pêra as Irene
Marília Pêra

as Irene

Othon Bastos as César
Othon Bastos

as César

Otávio Augusto as Pedrão
Otávio Augusto

as Pedrão

Matheus Nachtergaele as Isaías Paiva
Matheus Nachtergaele

as Isaías Paiva

Caio Junqueira as Moisés Paiva
Caio Junqueira

as Moisés Paiva

Stela Freitas as Yolanda
Stela Freitas

as Yolanda

Maria Menezes as Waitress
Maria Menezes

as Waitress

Sergio Kato as Dora's Client
Sergio Kato

as Dora's Client

Movie Facts

Rated

  • R

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • April 3, 1998

Production Companies

  • MACT Productions

  • VideoFilmes

  • RioFilme

Production Countries

  • Brazil

  • France

Spoken Language

  • Português

Budget

  • $2,900,000.00

Revenue

  • $5,596,708.00

Runtime

  • 1.85 hrs

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“Dora” (Fernanda Montenegro) used to be a school teacher, but now she sits at a table in the station in Rio de Janeiro and writes letters for the illiterate traveller for a few réals a time. She thinks little of a woman and her young son who stop by, except perhaps that he isn’t the most trusting of boys, but when a tragedy promptly befalls this pair she finds herself being asked to write another…