Brazil reflects on Lula's last year.

In his last full year as Brazilian leader President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva still commands the political stage here, his popularity at levels most other world leaders would envy.

Now a sympathetic portrayal of his early life is showing in cinemas across the country, although not without creating considerable controversy.

Lula, Son of Brazil, tells how the president was born into poverty in the north east of the country, and how like millions of Brazilians his family headed to the more prosperous south in search of a better life.

It ends as his political career begins as a union activist, arrested during the period of Brazil's military dictatorship and only able to attend his mother's funeral under police guard.

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