SummaryBorn into extreme poverty in 1945, Lula was guided by a strong mother who faced overwhelming obstacles to raise her children with the drive and courage to live life without fear. Lindu, who was abandoned by her husband just before Lula’s birth, never wavered from her strict commitment to seeing that her kids live a better life. She raised eight c... Read More
Directed By:Fábio Barreto, Marcelo Santiago
Written By:Fernando Bonassi, Denise Paraná, Daniel Tendler
Lula, the Son of Brazil
Metascore
Mixed or Average
44
User score
Generally Unfavorable
2.6
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
11% Positive
1 Review
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67% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Jan 12, 2012
70
A conventional, rather shallow up-by-your-bootstraps drama, but with a difference.
Jan 24, 2012
60
Long on hero worship and woefully short on insight, Lula: Son of Brazil oozes good intentions, but it wouldn't look out of place in a retrospective of early Soviet workerist cinema.
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Generally Unfavorable
27% Positive
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73% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
May 22, 2025
0
Filme do cara mais odiado do brazil, nada relevante alias acho que foi feito para lavar dinheiro
Jan 9, 2012
50
The screenplay by Daniel Tendler, Fernando Bonassi and Lula biographer Parana succumbs to many of the most unfortunate narrative tendencies of biopics, including a proclivity for piling on incident after incident as a substitute for real character insight.
Jan 10, 2012
40
Forget "Son of Brazil": This syrupy origin story/biopic on the nation's beloved reformist president, whose second term ended in 2010, should be titled Mama's Boy.
Jan 9, 2012
38
This insipidly inspirational biopic of the two-term Brazilian president is a safe, bourgeois vision of proletarian struggle.
Jan 13, 2012
25
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's reformist two-term president, gets the once-over-lightly treatment in Lula, Son of Brazil.
Jan 4, 2014
0
Pra mim não um dos melhores filmes nacionais, fraco mal trabalhado e com um roteiro cheio de falhas e atuações fraquíssimas, uma pena não era pra ser grande coisa.
Production Company:
- Costa Films
- Globo Filmes
- Luiz Carlos Barreto Produções Cinematográficas
Release Date:Jan 13, 2012
Duration:2 h 10 m
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Awards
ACIE Awards, Brazil
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Prêmio Guarani
• 2 Nominations
