See You Tomorrow Mario (I Morgon Mario)
Swedish/Portuguese co-production.
Original Portuguese Title | ATÉ AMANHÃ, MÁRIO
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Family feature film
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Duration | 76 mins
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Released | 1994
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Director | Solveig Nordlund
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Script | Solveig Nordlund based on a novel by Grete Roulund
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Cast | João Silva, Paulo César, Victor Norte, Percy Brandt, Ulla Wikander, Gunnar Nielsen
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The Fort Lauderdale Int'l Film Festival wrote:
"It was beautifully made, extremely funny and very moving."
"Charming low-budgeter about a day in the life of street urchins on the tourist island Madeira is an appealing combo of indignation and humour. Carefully handled.." VARIETY April 1994
Story:
The poor children hustle Swedish and other foreign tourists, dive for coins and generally try for the best life possible. Now that his father has died Mario, the main character, has to support his brother and his sister while their mother is in hospital. When he grows up, he wants to become a whale hunter, but nobody hunts whales anymore.