Couro de Gato (Short 1962)

Couro de Gato: Directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade. With Paulinho, Riva Nimitz, Henrique César, Milton Gonçalves. A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.

“Portrait of sad reality. About poverty, choices, survive, emotions, deep reality. Boys and cats and Carnival. And fragments from a world who seems very easy to define only at the first sigh. Memories about City of God , samba and runs. And the last scene, one of the most touching from cinematography. Short, a film to must see. For understand a hidded reality who remains alive across more than a half of century.”