Por Trás do Pano (1999)

Directed by

Luiz Villaça

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An insecure actress gets a chance to perform with a famous actor. The actor is having marital problems with his wife because of his ex-wife.

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What happens

Por Trás do Pano is a 1999 Brazilian comedy-drama film directed by Luiz Villaça. It stars Denise Fraga, Pedro Cardoso, Luís Melo, Ester Góes and Marisa Orth. The plot follows the story of Helena (Fraga), an insecure actress who is married to Marcos (Cardoso), as she receives an invitation to perform in a play alongside the famous actor Sérgio (Melo), who lives a conjugal crisis with his wife Laís (Orth) due to his involvement with his former wife Alexandra (Góes). The filming took place in 1998 in the Municipal Theatre of the city of Americana, in the state of São Paulo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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