Product Description

Obdulio, an 11-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy from the streets, can neither read nor write. He lives with his grandmother and supports them both by selling newspapers. One evening, he discovers that the night watchman at the newspaper is a magical Maestro, who introduces the boy to the power of literacy and the meaning of life. Against the backdrop of Uruguay s provocatively stimulating carnival, the Maestro teaches Obdulio about life through the lyrics of the Murgas, the songs of the carnival.
In the tradition of magic realism, director Leonardo Ricagni uses the carnival atmosphere to transport viewers to an enchanted time and place where reality and dreams collide

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82714 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-09-25
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: Spanish
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Customer Reviews

Some things lost in translation
Some of the most powerful sounding drumming of Afro beats in the Americas come from Uruguay. So far much of it does not make its way out of South America to Northern America. This entire video of movie and special features sets out to school our ignorance. The special features are as entertaining and important as the feature film. It may make the movie more entertaining if the mini documentary feature on drumming and comparsa is viewed before. The actual movie itself is the world of Spanish murgas and Afro comparsas, and how it would be in a perfect world. The movie never leaves its own innocence behind and never fully becomes an adult even though the crises facing the central child figure are those of an adult. The movie is very educational especially for young boys moving into tweener age. The focus is the importance of education and imagination. Children want perfect worlds and getting to adulthood many times means abandoning such idealistic dreams. A Dios Momo says childhood is forever.

muy buena
es una pelicula muy típica del director. su estilo es inconfundible
es una historia de pronto muy local como para ser entendida por toda la gente
pero conmueve.