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Lula, The Son of Brazil

GENRE: Art/Foreign and Drama
RATING: NR
RUNNING TIME: 2:10
RELEASE DATE: 03/31/2011
STARRING: Gloria Pires, Cleo Pires, Lucelia Santos, Milhem Cortaz
DIRECTOR: Fabio Barreto, Marcelo Santiago
PRODUCER(S): Paula Barreto, Romulo Marinho
WRITER(S): Fernando Bonassi, Daniel Tendler

MOVIE SYNOPSIS

Portrait of Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's early years. Chronicles his family's immigration from Northeast Brazil to Sao Paulo, his years as a shoeshine boy and his brother's arrest which drove him into trade union activism, climaxing in Lula's heading Brazil's trade union movement and incarceration, just as his mother dies.