HELENO

By José Henrique FONSECA

ZOLA FILMES - as PROD

True Story - Completed 2011

A biography of the tragic life of one of Brazil's greatest soccer players, Heleno de Freitas.

    • Year of production
    • 2011
    • Genres
    • True Story, Drama
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 117 mn
    • Director(s)
    • José Henrique FONSECA
    • Synopsis
    • Rio in the forties was an oasis in a world fraught by war. Its star was Heleno de Freitas, (a stand-out performance by Rodrigo Santoro), a footballer, whose violent temper both on and off the pitch led to his decline in the late fifties. Shot in luminous black and white, José Henrique Fonseca’s latest feature film evokes Heleno’s glory days when he was king of Rio’s night and day, to his lonely end in a sanatorium due to untreated syphilis.