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Hour of the Star

A Hora da Estrela

Brazil

1985

96 Min
Color
Portuguese
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DIR Suzana Amaral

PROD Assunção Hernandes

SCR Suzana Amaral, Alfredo Oroz, Clarice Lispector

DP Edgar Moura

CAST Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman, Fernanda Montenegro, Manoel Luiz Aranha

ED Idê Lacreta

PROD DES Clovis Bueno

MUSIC Marcus Vinicius

Berlinale (Competition): Best Actress, C.I.C.A.E. Award, OCIC Award, São Paulo (Apresentação especial memória brasileira)

Synopsis

Macabéa is a young girl that leaves Brazilian Northeast in order to try a better life in São Paulo, at the age of 19. The movie shows the meeting of this naïve girl with the tricks of the big city. Based on the novel by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. —mostra.org

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Clarice Lispector should have a credit on this page; after all, she wrote the novel!

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