Boy 23: The Forgotten Boys of Brazil

Overview

The film accompanies the investigation of the historian Sidney Aguilar after the discovery of bricks marked with Nazi swastikas in the interior of São Paulo. They then discover a horrifying fact that during the 1930s, fifty black and mullato boys were taken from an orphanage in Rio de Janeiro to the farm where the bricks were found. There they were identified by numbers and were submitted to slave labour by a family that was part of the political and economic elite of the country and who did not hide their Nazi sympathizing ideals.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 7, 2016

Original language

Portuguese

Spoken languages

Portuguese

Countries

Brazil

Production

Globo Filmes

Director

Belisario Franca

Cinematography

Lula Cerri

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt3121724