Name: Sonhando com Milhões
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1963-05-13
Duration: 1 h 22 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Dercy Gonçalves, Odete Lara, Oswaldo Loureiro

A humorous glimpse on Brazilian life minths before military coup

Despite moralist and predictable, this comedy film is not only funny but also puts some light in social and cultural life in Brazil few months before military coup. Class relationships are in the core of the story, and the movie also shows how public service was in the core of social life those years, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, decades before neo-liberal age (and there was already prejudice against it, with the widespread idea that public servers usually do not work and are corrupt). A poor maid (Dercy Gonçalves) is explored by her employers (particularly Odete Lara), with whom she has a blured labor/personal relationship, and dreams about not being a servant anymore and about having her own domestic employers. A middle class couple of public servers dream about living in luxury, just like colleagues who do not work hard. Millionaire sugar mill businessmen have luxurious lives and evade taxes, offering bribery in order to slip paying the fine. All characters but the honest auditor try to take undue advantage in the story. Though, the film had the predictable and straight happy end... differently from Brazil, that eventually entered a 21-year bloody dictatoship.

Portuguese-language cinema, spanning Portugal, Brazil, and other Lusophone regions, focuses on history, cultural identity, and the struggles of ordinary people, often framed with poetic or allegorical storytelling. In Portugal, cinema has emphasized meditative pacing and philosophical depth, reflecting on memory and tradition. In Brazil, it has often been politically charged and socially vibrant, highlighting inequality and resilience while experimenting with popular and avant-garde forms.

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Civil servant finds about a group of mill owners who are defrauding some Government taxes. They try to buy him offering a considerable sum, hoping he would lay off the investigation, but he resists.

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