A favela Cinderella story where the glass slipper is a record contract.
A girl goes from a favela to the luxurious scenarios of the international singing industry
Acting
Isabel Sarli's raw magnetism before Bó made her his muse.
Production
Jarring cuts between documentary favela footage and studio fantasy.
Director
Armando Bó
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Brazil's brief Cinema Novo golden age, this captures the tension between social realism and commercial escapism that would define Latin American cinema for decades.
Sarli and Bó's personal and professional partnership began here; he would direct her in 27 more films, increasingly focused on her body rather than her surprisingly nuanced acting.
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