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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Andre, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano's house to pick up clothes and documents, Andre stumbles on a notebook, and it's here that Araby begins or, rather, transforms. As Andre reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano's life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves
Wide screen
Originally released as a motion picture in 2017
Special features: The hidden tiger (2014, 95 minutes), a feature film by Affonso Uchoa, co-written with João Dumans, and starring Aristides de Sousa, the lead actor from Araby; To each their own (2018, 34 minutes), a short film by João Dumans, comprised of photos dating back to the 1960's taken by Duman's father, a photographer, of Ouro Preto, the setting of Araby; theatrical trailer
Director of photography, Leonardo Feliciano
Aristides de Sousa, Murilo Caliari, Glaucia Vandeveld
Rating: Not rated
DVD, NTSC, region 1, wide screen presentation
In Portuguese ; with English, Spanish or French subtitles