CAPITÃES DA AREIA, by Jorge Amado

 

It was 3 p.m. when Principal João Jaime Pires came into the staff room and invited the teachers to take their classes to the auditorium to attend the film Capitães da Areia. It was a different afternoon, not only for the beauty of the film, but also by its outcome: the social integration and regeneration of a gang of abandoned children who lived by stealing in the streets of Bahia, in Brazil.