Xuxa and The Treasure of the Lost City

Xuxa and The Treasure of the Lost City (2004)

Xuxa e o Tesouro da Cidade Perdida

Deep in the Amazon rain forest, there is a lost subterranean city. The place was built by Vikings who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and ventured up the Amazon River, and shelters a mysterious treasure. In order to find the secret location, Bárbara and the children Riacho and Manhã will have to face many challenges. Vicious snakes and dangerous pendulum blades are only the beginning of our heroes' adventures.

Date of release
2004-12-10
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Adventure, Family
Director
Moacyr Góes

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Manaus

Xuxa e o Tesouro da Cidade Perdida is a 2004 Brazilian fantasy adventure children's film, written by Flávio de Souza, directed by Moacyr Góes, produced by Diler Trindade and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and Globo Filmes. Starring Xuxa Meneghel, Marcos Pasquim, Juliana Knust, Paulo Vilhena, Sérgio Hondjakoff, Natália Lage, Zezé Motta, Bruna Marquezine, Milton Gonçalves and Sérgio Malheiros. Xuxa lives a biologist in a town near the Amazon rainforest. Alongside the brothers Riacho and Manhã, she seeks the lost city of Igdrasil, which according to legend was founded by descendants of Vikings who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and ventured down the Amazon River.

Production

After the release of Xuxa Abracadabra, Xuxa started working on the concept of his new film as early as February 2004, the production of the new feature film, would have to go through the choice of Xuxa, began in the first week of the month with casting, although the new film did not have the title defined yet at that time. Once again the direction is of Moacyr Góes, also responsible for the previous film of Xuxa, "Abracadabra".

According to the producer, Xuxa is silent on the new film for a script option." Xuxa questioned this:"I, who speak so much, will be monosyllabic?...," she said, and she was even a little worried. In a booklet of O Tesouro da Cidade Perdida, the presenter philosophizes on the question: "The message I want to spend in this film is not so expensive, since having a respect for nature is one of the lines I did not have in any dialogue, I want to make…

To interpret Igor, the love interest of Tesouro da Cidade Perdida, was chosen the actor Marcos Pasquim. Before filming the scene of the kiss, says Xuxa, she asked Pasquim how he would like her to do, how could be the kiss. The actor decided on the famous technical kiss and when he approached Xuxa she said: "Do you smoke?". Unappealing, Pasquim left the scene and came back with a bunch of bullet in his mouth.

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