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This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.Read moreLess
This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.
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This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.
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Maria de MedeirosMaria
Marcello UrgegheMário
Evgeniy SidikhinJoão
Laura del SolTeresa
Mireille PerrierThe Teacher
Olimpia CarlisiThe Mother
Luís Miguel CintraFriend at the Apartment
Orlando Costa1st Policeman
Io AppolloniHotel Clerk
Miguel BorgesClient
Marco DelgadoBoy in the Disco
Pedro Cabrita ReisMan in the BatExplore the crew
- Director
- Teresa Villaverde
- Editor
- Rudolfo Wedeles
- Editor
- Teresa Villaverde
- Director of Photography
- Joaquim Pinto
- Director of Photography
- Antoine Roch
- Director of Photography
- Volker Tittel
- Screenplay
- Teresa Villaverde
- Editor
- Vasco Pimentel
- Producer
- Joaquim Pinto
- Director of Photography
- Ulrich Jänchen