PL-BR-CH-UK 1989 colour 105 min.   
dir:  Lech Majewski
pro: Juliusz Kossakowski, Mark Slater     Mult, Media AG, Samba Corporation
sc: Lech Majewski, Julia Frankel, Ronald Biggs
ph: George Mooradian
mus: Luciano Perrone,  Luiz Bonfá,  Hans Zimmer
ed: Darren Kloomok
cast: Nice Meirelles, Breno Mello,  Zezé Motta, Breno Moroni, Meran Vargens, Ronald Biggs

In the seductive haunts of Rio de Janeiro hides the world’s most wanted man, the Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs. Scotland Yard has never gotten over it. He’s eluded them, outwitted them, embarrassed them. After years of searching, they uncover his hideout and send superintendent Jack McFarland to bring Biggs back to Wandsworth prison. He has to kidnap the robber since Great Britain and Brazil haven’t signed an extradition treaty. His botched efforts, entangled with the preparations for the Carnival, make him break the law in the name of the law and from the hunter, he becomes the hunted. This is Brazil, Rio, “the city that seduces like a beautiful woman”, and, as the samba lyrics go, “a world turned upside down”.

Majewski spends two years in Rio writing the screenplay with Ronald Biggs, then producing and directing the film.

Selected films descriptions thanks to www.lechmajewski.art.pl