Aperana Street 52 (Rua Aperana, 52) 12 years old

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,

Credits

Caetano Veloso as

Selton Mello as

Gilberto Gil as

Drica Moraes as

Chico Buarque as

Alessandra Negrini as

Aperana Street 52 Cast

Name	Character
Caetano Veloso He was 69, now 81 years old
Selton Mello He was 39, now 51 years old
Gilberto Gil He was 69, now 81 years old
Drica Moraes She was 42, now 54 years old
Chico Buarque He was 67, now 79 years old
Alessandra Negrini She was 41, now 53 years old
Joel Barcellos He was 75, 76 years old when he died
Fernando Eiras He was 54, now 67 years old
Giulia Gam She was 45, now 57 years old

Aperana Street 52 Crew

Name	Department
Júlio Bressane as Director. He was 65 (now 78) years old	Directing
Júlio Bressane as Producer. He was 65 (now 78) years old	Production
Júlio Bressane as Writer. He was 65 (now 78) years old	Writing
Rodrigo Lima as Editor. He was 20 (27) years old when He died	Editing
Guilherme Vaz as Original Music Composer.	Sound

Aperana Street 52 (12 years)

Release day: Friday, January 20, 2012
Runtime: 80 minutes