Leila Diniz (1987)
- Starring:
- Louise Cardoso, Diogo Vilela, (more)
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Every country no doubt has its golden youths who die before they have had a chance to come to full flower and who leave a romantic legend behind them. In the U.S., one of these was James Dean. In Brazil, the fans of the actress Leila Diniz were similarly bereft when she died in the late 1960s. This biographical drama, directed and written by one of her close friends, and produced by a relative, tells the story of a very modern woman who broke new social ground in the conservative society of Brazil. Many of the people involved with the unconventional actress in real life play themselves in this film. The mood of the times are evoked: it was an era when a repressive military dictatorship governed the country, but the ideas and styles of beat poetry and aspirations for social change were fermenting among the young. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Louise Cardoso - Leila Diniz
- Carlos Alberto Riccelli - Domingos
- Marieta Severo - Leila's mother
- Antonio Fagundes
- Romulo Arantes
- Otavio Augusto
- Oswaldo Loureiro
- Diogo Vilela - Luiz Carlos
- Tony Ramos - Leila's father
- Stenio Garcia
- Jose Wilker
- Yara Amaral
- Hugo Carvana
- Mariana de Moraes
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