Stories of Samba

Mar 21, 2024

1h 49m

★ 6.4

Overview

At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly remembers the maloca where he lived with Joca and Mato Grosso, their passion for Iracema and other characters eternalized in his sambas, chronicles of a metropolis swallowed up by the voracious appetite of progress.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Pink Flamingo Filmes

Nation Filmes

Claro

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Cast

Adoniran Barbosa

Paulo Miklos

Mato Grosso

Gero Camilo

Joca

Gustavo Machado

Iracema

Leilah Moreno

Cícero

Sidney Santiago

Pereira

Paulo Tiefenthaler

Osório

Carlos Gimenez

Mané

Izak Dahora

Arnesto

Zemanuel Piñero

Doutor Valdemar

Ney Piacentini

Dona Giulia

Noemi Marinho

Dona da Loja

Leiza Maria

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