Fábio Barreto (Diretor)

“Lula, the Son of Brazil is a film about an ordinary man, a Brazilian who comes out of nowhere, and becomes an extraordinary man”.

Rui Ricardo Diaz (Lula)

"Rather than pursuing the exact voice, I had to find the look, build a real character, without overdoing it. And for that, I had to be true."

Cleo Pires (Lurdes)

"I was very moved by the purity of Lourdes and Lula"

Juliana Baroni (Marisa Letícia)

"Marisa is a lioness who has always supported her husband and children"

Milhem Cortaz (Aristides)

"Aristides is very rough, but is human. A man of great honor, a sufferer"

Sergio Penna (Cast Trainer)

“Glória Pires was the great mother of the set”

Daniel Tendler (Screenwriter)

"The life of Lula is part of several statistics"

Denise Paraná (Co-writer, author of the book Lula, the Son of Brazil)

"Lula's history is made up of the unlikely but also of the possibilities"

Fernando Bonassi (Co-writer)

"There are also a lot of personal memory, the desire to give flesh and spirit to the story."

Gustavo Hadba (Director of Photography)

"We wanted to tell the story of a Brazilian who has overcome its problems - like so many others."

Clovis Bueno (Art Direction)

"In cinema, is not enough to be true - has to be convincing."

Cristina Camargo (Costumes)

“The idea was to create in a realist manner, without spruce, without pose”

Luiz Carlos Barreto (Producer)

“We didn’t make a film about a politician or the president of the republic, but about a common man, with his family and the extraordinary capacity to overcome difficulties.”

Lucy Barreto (Producer)

“D.Lindu wants whats Best for her children – this is a universal feeling”

Paula Barreto (Producer)

“The biggest challenge was to convey the greatest possible accuracy to the reality of the time, no glamorizing the house, clothes, objects, people. Not being afraid of the hardship, the dryness, the general lack, the misery”.

Antonio Pinto (Sound Track)

"One of the good things about this film was to work with Fábio: he has a great musical feeling and accepted almost 80% of the proposals. When the main theme caught his heart, the rest flowed naturally(...) And it was great to meet Jaques Morelenbaum again, my partner in “Central do Brasil”.”

Jaques Morelenbaum (Sound Track)

“Lula’s life, especially in the way it’s told, feels like a saga, an adventure, the construction of a character with an unexpected trajectory – from the place he was born to the point he is now."