Vera is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian film

Film

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 written and directed by Sérgio Toledo

Sérgio Toledo

Sérgio Toledo Segall or simply Sérgio Toledo is the son of actress Beatriz Segall and an award-winning Brazilian screenwriter and director most known for his film Vera, that won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Ana Beatriz Nogueira and a nomination for Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin...

 (1987), and starring Ana Beatriz Nogueira

Ana Beatriz Nogueira

Ana Beatriz Soares Nogueira is a Brazilian actress. In 1987 she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival for her role in the film Vera, directed by Sergio Toledo.-Filmography:...

, Norma Blum, Raul Cortez and Carlos Kroeber.

The film is based on the short and troubled life of Anderson Bigode Herzer, a transsexual and the author

Author

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 of the book A queda para o alto.

Plot

Vera is a transsexual girl who lives in a correctional facility for young people. After a book of verses about her life as a young troubled youth, she meets a benevolent, educated man, who helps her, even allowing her to spend some time at his home, and arranges for a job for her as an intern in his office.

She sees herself and dresses as a man (crossdressing), in a typical sexual crisis-type behaviour, and falls in love with a woman, even passing for a guy to her girlfriend's family.

The film succeeds in focusing on Vera's personality and feelings until her tragic death.

Cast

• Ana Beatriz Nogueira
  Ana Beatriz Nogueira
  Ana Beatriz Soares Nogueira is a Brazilian actress. In 1987 she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival for her role in the film Vera, directed by Sergio Toledo.-Filmography:...
  
   as Vera
• Adriana Abujamra
• Cida Almeida
• Norma Blum
• Raul Cortez as City-councillor Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy
• Liana Duval
• Abrahão Farc
• Carlos Kroeber
  Carlos Kroeber
  - Television :* 1998 - Labirinto .... Juiz* 1998 - Torre de Babel .... Dr. Navarro* 1995 - Engraçadinha... seus amores e seus pecados* 1995 - História de amor .... Remador* 1994 - A viagem.... Juiz* 1994 - Pátria minha .... Cristiano...
  
  
• Aida Leiner
• Imara Reis

Awards

In 1986, it won the "Troféu Candango" at the Festival de Brasília for:

• Best actress: Ana Beatriz Nogueira (shared with Louise Cardoso, for Baixo Gávea)
• Best soundtrack: Arrigo Barnabé, Roberto Ferraz e Tércio da Motta
• Best Sound: José Luiz Sasso

In 1987, won two awards at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival

37th Berlin International Film Festival

The 37th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 20 February to 3 March 1987.-Jury:* Klaus Maria Brandauer * Juliet Berto* Kathleen Carroll* Callisto Cosulich* Victor Dyomin* Reinhard Hauff* Edmund Luft* Jiří Menzel...

 for:

• Silver Bear for Best Actress
  Silver Bear for Best Actress
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  : Ana Beatriz Nogueira
• Golden Bear
  Golden Bear
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  for best film (Nominated)