Perfume de gardênia is a Brazilian movie

Film

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 of 1992, the genus drama

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, directed by Guilherme de Almeida Prado

Guilherme de Almeida Prado

Guilherme de Almeida Prado is a Brazilian film director.Graduated in civil engineering while at the same time doing movies...

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Synopsis

Daniel is a taxi

Taxicab

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 driver, he works the night

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 to pay the car payments, is married to a housewife

Housewife

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 Adalgisa and have a son. By chance, she starts making movies, abandons the family and is prohibited by Daniel to see Joaquim. For eleven years, Daniel nurtures a sense of revenge, which gains strength when Joaquim, as an adult, finds his mother in full decay professional.

Cast

• Christiane Torloni
  Christiane Torloni
  Christiane Maria dos Santos Torloni is a Brazilian actress. Her first appearance was on the Brazilian TV network Rede Globo. Among the many characters she has played are Jô Penteado in A Gata Comeu , and Fernanda in Selva de Pedra...
  
   .... as Adalgisa
• José Mayer .... as Daniel
• Walter Quiroz
  Walter Quiroz
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   .... as Quim
• Cláudio Marzo .... as delegate
• Betty Faria .... as Odete Vargas
• José Lewgoy
  José Lewgoy
  José Lewgoy was an American-Brazilian television, film and theatre actor.He was born in Veranópolis, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to a Russian father and an American mother, who met in New York. He died in Rio de Janeiro. He was considered one of the best actors in Brazil, and was usually typecast...
  
   .... as Ody Marques
• Raul Gazolla .... as César Lamas
• Helena Ignez
• Oscar Magrini
• Sérgio Mamberti
• Matilde Mastrangi
  Matilde Mastrangi
  Matilde Raspa Mastrangi is a Brazilian actress.- Career :Mastrangi was originally a photomodel who also posed for the magazine Sétimo Céu. In 1971, singer Wanderley Cardoso arranged her to work as a dancer on Silvio Santos TV show.Mastrangi made her acting debut in 1974 with As Cangaceiras...
  
  
• Paulo Villaça

Awards and nominations

Festival de Brasília

Festival de Brasília

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1992 (Brazil)

• Won the categories of best actor (José Mayer), best supporting character actor (José Lewgoy) and best supporting character
  Supporting character
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   actress (Betty Faria).

Festival de Gramado

Festival de Gramado

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1992 (Brazil)

• Nominated for best film.

Curiosity

• Perfume de gardênia marks the debut of actor Oscar Magrini in film.

• It is the last movie actor Paulo Villaça, he died of AIDS
  AIDS
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   in 1992.