In the house opposite
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | In the house opposite |
| Original title | O Outro Lado da Rua |
| Country of production | Brazil |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marcos Bernstein |
| script |
Marcos Bernstein Melanie Dimantas |
| production |
Marcos Bernstein Katia Machado |
| music | Guilherme Bernstein Seixas |
| camera | Toca Seabra |
| cut | Marcelo Moraes |
| occupation | |
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In the house opposite (alternatively: The other side of the street) is a Brazilian feature film from 2004.
action
Regina is a pensioner who lives in Rio de Janeiro . She is bored and finds a change as an informant for the police. The closest neighborhood is their area of operation. At first she only cares about wrongly parked cars, then the cases get more exciting. Pickpockets are caught and suspicious people are observed. All of this doesn't make her a popular person in the neighborhood. One day she observes an apartment across the street from her window. A man appears to be killing his wife. She informs her police station, which is actually taking care of the case.
The next day she learns that it is the serious judge Camargo, who had only administered her medicine to his sick wife and that she later died of natural causes. Regina should stop interfering in matters and no longer harass the police in the future. However, this motivates Regina to investigate on her own and so she gets closer and closer to the likeable judge. The investigation finally turns into a love story between the lonely pensioner and the widower.
background
For the already experienced screenwriter Marcos Bernstein, Im Haus opposite is the first film as a director. Bernstein wrote the screenplay for the world success Central Station by Walter Salles .
Reviews
"The directorial debut of the screenwriter Marcos Bernstein (" Central Station "), who combines elements of the thriller with a sensitive romance between two elderly people and a study of isolation and loneliness."
Awards
- CICAE Award at the Berlinale 2004 - the film was shown in the Panorama section
- Brazilian Film Award 2005 for Fernanda Montenegro (Best Actress) and Laura Cardoso (Best Supporting Actress)
Web links
- In the house opposite in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- official homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the house opposite. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 27, 2017 .