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The Bewitching Braid
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Wikipedia article
'The Bewitching Braid' (, ) is a 1996 film directed by Cai Yuanyuan () and produced by Cai An'an ( aka "Choi Unun"). It was the first film produced in Macau.
The Cai brothers hoped to make a film that showcased the territory. The production company was jointly owned by the two brothers.
The budgeting of the film, shot in 1995, was for 8,000,000 Macau patacas, with 2,000,000 patacas of that used for distribution purposes. It is an adaptation of written by Henrique de Senna Fernandes, written originally in Portuguese as 'A Trana Feiticeira'; the English translation of this novel was published under the same English name, 'The Bewitching Braid', by Hong Kong University Press.
Most of the filming locations were in Portuguese Macau and Zhuhai.
The film is about a relationship between a Portuguese man and a Chinese woman. The story is set in the 1930s.
Cast
* as Adozindo
* Ning Jing as A-Leng
* as Adozindo's father
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* Roberto Candeias as Florncio
References
Further reading
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* - Published on Sohu News
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