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Prime Time Soap
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Wikipedia article
'Prime Time Soap' is a 2011 Brazilian drama film produced by Joo Queiroz and directed by Odilon Rocha. The feature is produced by Querosene Filmes, Cria Filmes, Gerao Contedo and TC Filmes, co-produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It stars Cludia Ohana, Vanessa Gicomo, Mateus Solano, Andr Ramiro between other actors.
Is a tribute to the Brazilian drama, against the backdrop of the novel Dancin' Days, Gilberto Braga, who influenced the imagination of most of the Brazilians in terms of fashion, behavior and thinking. The director Odilon Rocha, told the press that "the film recreates the look of the club that appeared on TV, which is in the imagination of most Brazilians who lived through that time and also the youth who knows through novel scenes that can be seen on the internet. The intention is to take viewers to that colorful universe ".
The film debuted to the public at the Festival do Rio in 2011 for later, according to the plans of the director, be presented in international festivals and be released commercially in Brazil, by Universal films, on 30 March 2012.
Plot
Brazil, 1978, a group of people live their lives under the dictatorship, the euphoria of disco fever and the fantasy of "Dancin' Days", a prime time soap, which fictional drama is set on the homonymous night club in Rio de Janeiro. After a fatal incident, Amanda and Dora (a high-class prostitute addicted to the TV drama, and her "maid") are forced to run away from So Paulo to Rio de Janeiro with the fed Brando in hot pursuit. While the excitement of visiting the disco "Dancin' Days" distracts Amanda from the danger of the situation she is in, Dora gets ready to confront her secret past. In a six degrees of separation manner, their destine will cross with Joo Paulo, a diplomat who feels like a foreigner in his own country, the revolutionary Vicente and his brother Pedro, and the teenager Caio, who was raised by his grandparents and counts with the support of his friend Mnica as he struggles to be accepted as a gay man. Both youngster are crazy about disco fever and fascinated by the soap "Dancin' Days".
Cast
* Cludia Ohana as Dora Dias
* Vanessa Gicomo as Amanda Lima
* Mateus Solano as Joo Paulo
* Andr Ramiro as Sergio
* Paulo Lontra as Caio
* Thas Mller as Mnica
* Aline Fanju as Flvia
* Camilla Amado as Maria
* Otto Jr. as Vicente
* Guilherme Duarte as Pedro
References
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