Cinderela Baiana (1998)

Directed by

Conrado Sanchez

Genre

musical film, romantic comedy film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

1.7 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fictionalized biography of dancer Carla Perez. It follows her rise to fame as a performer in Brazilian axé music.

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What happens

Cinderela Baiana (Portuguese for Bahian Cinderella) is a 1998 Brazilian semi-fictionalized biographical romantic comedy film directed by Conrado Sanchez (who also wrote the screenplay, even though he was uncredited for it) and produced by Antônio Polo Galante (his last credited work prior to his retirement in the same year). It is a heavily fictionalized biography of dancer Carla Perez, famous for being a former member of axé group É o Tchan!. The film is noted for being the debuts of Perez, then-unknown actors Lázaro Ramos and Lucci Ferreira, and musician Alexandre Pires (frontman of samba group Só Pra Contrariar and Carla Perez's then-boyfriend) on a feature film, and also counts with cameos by singers Netinho and Cátia Guimma, portraying themselves. Released in theaters on September 4, 1998, Cinderela Baiana was a critical and commercial failure, and to this day it is considered to be one of the worst films ever made by the Brazilian film industry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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