24 Aug 2005
Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume
Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.
Guaicurus Street
A red-light district in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The camera is admitted into a "running house". Love for sale looks like a routine, dreary assembly line exercise here, sometimes almost like a comedy.
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Ariadina Paulino Elizabeth Miguel Shirley Santos 
Carlos Francisco
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