The man who copied

Movie
German title	The man who copied
Original title	O Homem Que Copiava
Country of production	Brazil
original language	Portuguese
Publishing year	2003
length	123 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Jorge Furtado
script	Jorge Furtado
production	Nora Goulart , ; Luciana Tomasi
music	Andrè Abujamra
camera	Walter Carvalho
cut	Giba Assis Brasil
occupation
	Lázaro Ramos : André; Renata de Lélis : Caixa de Supermercado 1; Sérgio Lulkin : Gerente de Supermercado 1; Heitor Schmidt : Seu Gomide Bolha; Janaína Kremer Motta : Dona Maria Bolha; Gregory Garcia : Guigo Bolhinha; Sheron Menezzes : Guria esperta; Carlos Cunha : Antunes; Leandra Leal : Sílvia; Giovana Fázio : Guria do soneto; Luana Piovani : Marinês; Marcelo Aquino : Namorado alemão; Roger Oliveira : André criança; Pedro Cardoso : Cardoso; Júlio Andrade : Feitosa;

The man who copied (Original title: O Homem Que Copiava [ u ˈõmẽ ki koˈpjavɐ ], English title: The Man Who Copied ) is a Brazilian independent film by Jorge Furtado from 2003. The film is a comedically staged genre mix that received a total of eleven awards at various film festivals, including the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Award for Best Film . In total, the film grossed just under 4,700,000 BRL .

action

André is twenty, has never finished school and is using the photocopier in a stationery store in the city of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil. He chats extensively with his sexy colleague Marinês, spends his nights drawing comics and watching his beautiful neighbor Sylvia, with whom he secretly falls in love. After falling in love with her more and more, he starts following her and realizes that she works in a boutique. There he contacts her under the pretext of buying a present for his mother. However, he's too shy to take her out on a date. To buy this gift and to have an excuse to see Sylvia again in the boutique, he urgently needs money. He has the idea to produce counterfeit money with the color copier after work. His friend Cardoso, as unsuccessful as him, but always trying to maintain good posture with a tie and collar, soon helps him.

André gets more and more involved in criminal activities. When he discovers that Sylvia's disgusting father is chasing after her while showering, there is only one way out for him: He has to rob a money transport to enable everyone to escape to Rio. Fortunes of fortune alternate, while André and Sylvia, but also Marinês and Cardoso, come closer and blackmail, murder and other crimes rush into each other.

criticism

Videobuster.de rates the film as “an absolute top flick”, even if “the title does not suggest it”. The viewer can expect “a firework of ideas and unexpected twists and turns [...] It doesn't matter at all that the film doesn't really know what it wants to be: crime thriller, love story, comedy or thriller. Everything just fits, even the little cartoon passages are intelligently integrated and are simply fun - a total work of art ”.

Feature-film.org gives a similarly positive assessment: “With his feature film debut, Jorge Furtado staged a complex everyday story of completely normal people, wrapped in two love relationships and sometimes even plunged into criminalistic realms. He skillfully uses a lot of quotations, which means that the title also applies to the director. An entertaining, because amusing film. "

More reviews:

"The comedic genre mix, accompanied by brisk music, comes up with a few changes of perspective and, thanks to its atmospheric density and the expressive main actor, develops into a delightful cinematic picaresque novel."

- Lexicon of international film

“The Brazilian cinema delivers. Funny, clever, surprising, touching, cheeky and wanton. A character film. And a character actor that you have to love: Lázaro Ramos in the role of the twenty-year-old André. "

- Dietrich Kuhlbrodt in the taz

" The Man who Copied gallops through film history with recklessness, loots film roles, costumes, half-sentences and ideals, breaks down genre boundaries and backdrops and certainties."

- Heike Kühn in the Frankfurter Rundschau