The Pope's Toilet

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Claudio C @Claudio666 Mar 4 A Sad Story of Hope (12,311 - 04 Mar 2026) In 1988, when the Pope programs to travel to Melo, Uruguay, the poor people get excited, hoping to make money selling food to the tourists. The small-time smuggler Beto, who lives in a poor house with his wife Carmen and her daughter Silvia, decides to build a toilet to make money and buy a motorcycle. Beto smuggles goods on his bicycle from Aceguá, Brazil, to local merchants with his best friend Valvulina, and they are frequently intercepted by inspector Meleyo. Now the poor people make loans in the bank to buy food to feed the tourists. Will it work? "El baño del Papa", a.k.a. "The Pope's Toilet" (2007). Is a sad story of hope of a poor community. The wordt, the plot is based on a true story. It is hard to understand why this movie is classified as "comedy". The hope of the naive residents is ironic since Carmem’s idea of selling Brazilian medals of saints worked. My vote is six. Title (Brazil): "O Banheiro do Papa" ("The Pope’s Toilet") See more 08/28/2021 In the small, impoverished town of Melo in Uruguay, very near the border with Brazil, there are a group of men who make their living smuggling contraband across the international border, dealing with the corrupt border guards there. The movie concentrates on one of the men, who has a wife and daughter who live in an impoverished house which is little better than a shack. The daughter has dreams of having a career of being in television, though that seems very far away. The father of course has dreams of making money in a less risky way. Opportunity comes for not only him but for his fellow villagers when Pope John Paul II comes to the town to speak. Everybody expects huge crowds to come to Melo, and most of the townsfolk get loans with the idea of serving food and drink to the coming visitors. Our hero has a more clever idea; he comes up with a pay toilet for the visitors. But he still has to smuggle some more to create his bathroom...will everything pay off? This movie is based on real events, and while I cannot say how accurate the movie depicts Uruguay and its slums, the movie provides an appropriate atmosphere for the story. See more 09/28/2019 Everything, from the plot to the main character, shows the sensitivity of writers and directors to tell a raw story with honesty and respect. This is perhaps his greatest achievement, through which they obtain not only a film about poverty and misery, but a film about humanity, about wishing, failing and wishing again. See more 06/12/2017 Based on true events as a small village in Uruguay goes bananas over the Pope's 1988 visit. Everyone prepare for the happening. Rich Brazilians are coming, loads of them, so everyone is producing stuff to sell. Food and souvenirs mostly and the smuggler Beto, out guy, has plenty of stuff to do. He also has a brilliant plan. When all these people are walking the streets, buying food and drinks, they need to use the toilet, right? So he build one to charge a small fee for using it. It's not installed with water, but hey - it's a porcelain toilet with walls around! Brilliant story, funny stuff. The production is OK and so is the acting. Still, this was a dissapointment. It never reaches me and it's not very funny. The all over mood is humorous, but it does not work out like other than an dark comedy that suffer from uncharming, amature-like production. Lovely idea, though! 6 out of 10 smuggler routes. See more 10/15/2013 ????? ???? ?????? ???? ?????????? ??? ??? ?????? ????, ???? ????, ????? ????????????? :(( See more 06/21/2013 Are you kidding? Where is the uplifting experience, the miracle? "The final result will surprise everyone"? Sure, when they all say, "That's the end? That can't be the end!" See more Read all reviews

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