Jonas Bloch

Jonas Bloch

Born: February 8, 1939
in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jonas Bloch (Belo Horizonte, February 8, 1939) is a Brazilian actor. He is the father of actress Debora Bloch and great-nephew of businessman Adolpho Bloch. Of Jewish and Ukrainian origin, he began his artistic career in 1958 but later graduated from the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He also graduated in cinema and studied visual arts and interior design.

Movies for Jonas Bloch...

Apaixonada
Title: Apaixonada
Character: Orlando
Released: March 7, 2024
Type: Movie
Based on the book by Cris Souza Fontes, Apaixonada tells the story of a woman who realizes how monotonous her life is. She finds herself desperate and facing an identity crisis. From then on, she is forced to begin an exciting journey of self-discovery that takes her close to all the passions that life has to offer.
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Vida a Vida!
Title: Vida a Vida!
Released: March 7, 2024
Type: Movie
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Title: Elas por Elas
Character: Petrúcio Jardim
Released: September 25, 2023
Type: TV
Seven friends who met in their youth at an English course meet again 25 years later; Lara, Taís, Helena, Adriana, Renée, Natália and Carol, each of them has a different personality and origin, but they share a deep affection.
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Eike: Tudo ou Nada
Title: Eike: Tudo ou Nada
Character: Tonico
Released: September 22, 2022
Type: Movie
In 2006, when the Brazilian economy was taking off due to the discovery of oil in the pre-salt layer, Eike Batista decided to create the oil company OGX and hired the best men from Petrobras to participate in the pre-salt auction. But megalomaniacal plans and a series of misguided decisions and alliances cause their empire to crumble as spectacularly as it had grown. And Brazil watches, perplexed, the fall of Eike, who loses all his fortune, power and prestige. Inspired by the book by journalist Malu Gaspar.
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Hermanoteu na Terra de Godah: O Filme
Title: Hermanoteu na Terra de Godah: O Filme
Released: November 25, 2021
Type: Movie
Hermanoteu is a young shepherd boy who, enlightened by the "Divine Light", travels to the land of Godah to free the people from the oppressive hands of cruel tyrants. A comedy based on the hugely successful play "Hermanoteu in the Land of Godah" by the Brazilian theater company "The Best of the World".
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Title: A Life Worth Living
Character: Eric Feitosa
Released: July 29, 2019
Type: TV
A dreamy seamstress and mother of three's life is turned upside down when she's wrongly diagnosed with a terminal disease along with an actually terminally ill wealthy book publisher.
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The Traitor
Title: The Traitor
Released: May 23, 2019
Type: Movie
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
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Title: If I Close My Eyes Now
Character: Dom Tadeu
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: TV
In a quiet town, two boys find a woman's mutilated body. After becoming suspects at first and realizing there is a mystery behind that murder, they decide to investigate the case with the help of an enigmatic old man. When a vertiginous spiral of violence is triggered, conspiracy begins to emerge and the boys must discover the truth as soon as possible in order not to become the next victims.
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Doidas e Santas
Title: Doidas e Santas
Character: Olavo Prado
Released: August 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Beatriz is a famous psychoanalyst who teaches others to be happy, but isn't able to be happy herself. Things take a turn when her mother's death takes her traveling with her sister to Buenos Aires to comply with the unusual directives she left in her will.
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The Trace We Leave Behind
Title: The Trace We Leave Behind
Character: Heitor
Released: May 18, 2017
Type: Movie
A young physician coordinating the transfer of patients between state-run hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro struggles with a mystery: a patient goes missing one night and completely disappears from the system. As the doctor attempts to find out the truth, he slowly loses his sense of reality.
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Rota de Fuga
Title: Rota de Fuga
Character: Marconi
Released: February 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Manuela reports her husband to the federal police and enters the witness protection program. When he goes to prison, she leaves everything and tries to escape to Europe before he is released.
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Maresia
Title: Maresia
Character: Nord Klein
Released: November 17, 2016
Type: Movie
Where do you draw the line between fact and fiction in one man's life? That's the issue confronting an art expert delving into the biography of a painter who drowned 50 years ago, whose presence suddenly makes itself felt through the appearance of a contemporary friend.
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The Devil's Scarab
Title: The Devil's Scarab
Character: Padre Paulo Afonso
Released: April 14, 2016
Type: Movie
A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to investigate what is happening and is helped by the experienced but forgetful Inspector Pimentel.
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Vidas Partidas
Title: Vidas Partidas
Character: Promotor
Released: January 25, 2016
Type: Movie
A married couple lives peacefully with two children until the husband starts getting violent.
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The Other Side of Paradise
Title: The Other Side of Paradise
Character: Simeão
Released: August 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.
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A Tragédia da Rua das Flores
Title: A Tragédia da Rua das Flores
Character: Timóteo
Released: December 21, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Máscaras
Character: Gastão Moura / Big Blond
Released: April 10, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Máscaras
Character: Big Pond
Released: April 10, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Bela, a Feia
Character: Ricardo Ávila
Released: August 4, 2009
Type: TV
Bela, a Feia is a Brazilian telenovela originally aired on Rede Record from August 4, 2009 to June 2, 2010. A co-production with Televisa, it was based on the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, as well as the American series Ugly Betty. On June 1, 2010, the penultimate episode of Bela, a Feia made Record lead the audience ratings against Rede Globo in both São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, a feat rarely achieved in Brazilian television viewership.
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Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
Title: Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
Character: Gomes
Released: August 15, 2008
Type: Movie
The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto.
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Title: Amor e Intrigas
Character: Camilo Fraga
Released: November 20, 2007
Type: TV
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Cobrador: In God We Trust
Title: Cobrador: In God We Trust
Character: Detective
Released: November 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.
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Title: Bicho do Mato
Character: José Ramalho Rodrigues / Ramalho
Released: July 18, 2006
Type: TV
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Daughters of the Wind
Title: Daughters of the Wind
Character: Cara Pálida
Released: September 16, 2005
Type: Movie
É uma lírica história de redenção amorosa entre irmãs, mães e filhas, em uma pequena cidade do interior de Minas Gerais, onde os fantasmas da escravidão e do racismo acentuam os dramas de forma sutil e poderosa.
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Title: Os Ricos Também Choram
Character: Antonio Domingues
Released: July 18, 2005
Type: TV
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Playing in the Dark
Title: Playing in the Dark
Released: November 25, 2004
Type: Movie
A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life.
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Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Title: Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Character: General
Released: August 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women and idolized by his audience and friends. His contagious joy attracts the attention of American scientist Dr. Boris Lewitsky, who comes to Brazil in order to interview Apolônio's close friends and make them a most unusual offer concerning the remains of the late musician.
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Mango Yellow
Title: Mango Yellow
Character: Isaac
Released: August 14, 2002
Type: Movie
In a poor neighborhood in Recife, the lives of exotic and bizarre characters entwine in a bar and in a very low-budget hotel. The queer Dunga works in the hotel and has a crush on the butcher Wellington that is married with the religious Kika and has an affair with his mistress Dayse. The sick necrophiliac Isaac owns a yellow Mercedes Benz and wants to have sex with Lígia that owns of Bar Avenida.
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Woman on Top
Title: Woman on Top
Character: Pierre Laroche
Released: September 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.
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O Dia da Caça
Title: O Dia da Caça
Character: Branco
Released: June 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Ex-drug dealer is forced to go back to business by a corrupt policeman. He must go to Colombia and bring back some cocaine, but discovers the whole thing is a set up. He then devises a suicidal plan for revenge.
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O Circo das Qualidades Humanas
Title: O Circo das Qualidades Humanas
Released: January 21, 2000
Type: Movie
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A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar
Title: A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The ideological conflict between Joaquim Bolívar, a young barber member of the Communist Party and the powerful Coronel Gaudêncio, a typical province political leader.
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Texas Hotel
Title: Texas Hotel
Released: April 2, 1999
Type: Movie
An overlook at some urban characters in the city of Recife through their passages in a hotel.
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Kenoma
Title: Kenoma
Character: Gerônimo
Released: June 17, 1998
Type: Movie
In the village of Kenoma, inside Brazil, the artisan Linnaeus tries to make a big and quixotic dream: to build a perpetual motion machine. His contract is opposed by Jerome, powerful local landowner, but he wins the aid of mysterious drifter who decides to stay in town after charmed with the beauty of the young Tari.
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Uma Aventura do Zico
Title: Uma Aventura do Zico
Character: Frederico Mondo
Released: June 9, 1998
Type: Movie
Rich and spoiled kid, frustrated for not being chosen to join the soccer lessons his idol Zico was going to give, asks his father to clone the player. But a small girl smells something fishy going on and asks her friends to help save the Brazilian soccer star.
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The Patriot
Title: The Patriot
Character: Dr. Mendonça
Released: April 29, 1998
Type: Movie
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.
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Doces Poderes
Title: Doces Poderes
Character: Candidato do Paraná
Released: November 17, 1997
Type: Movie
A journalist is placed upon the management of a large broadcasting company to the capital of Brazil at the time of local elections. She must now face ideological and ethical questions, brought back by a left-wing former boyfriend and her own colleagues. At the same time, a free-lancer spy is sent by an obscure figure in politics to manipulate the elections and its media coverage.
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Title: Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
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Title: Young Hearts
Character: Tarso Magalhães (Tatuí)
Released: April 24, 1995
Type: TV
Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.
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Discretion Assured
Title: Discretion Assured
Released: August 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Three American businessmen have a problem with their Brazilian company: someone is embezzling millions of dollars. Michael is having an affair with Frank's wife Paige, but wants to end it. Paige is not so accommodating, and causes trouble with Michael's wife Kitty and his new interest, local artist Miranda. When someone is murdered Michael becomes a suspect, and must try to find the murderer and catch the embezzler while sorting out the wreckage of his personal life.
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Title: Tropicaliente
Character: Jordi
Released: May 16, 1994
Type: TV
Tropicaliente was a Brazilian soap opera produced and displayed at the time of 18 hours by Rede Globo, ran from May 16 to December 31, 1994, totaling 194 chapters. Written by Walter Negrao, in collaboration with Elizabeth Jhin, Angela Lamb, Mark Silver and directed by Vinicius Vianna and Blota Gonzaga, Marcelo Gomes and Roger Traverso. The general direction was Blota Gonzaga.
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Title: A Viagem
Character: Ismael Novaes
Released: April 11, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Mulheres de Areia
Character: Alemão (Walter Hartmann)
Released: February 1, 1993
Type: TV
The story of the rivalry between the twin sisters Ruth and Raquel takes place in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro. They have very different personalities. Ruth is sweet, calm and has a good heart. Raquel, on the other hand, is selfish, aggressive and mean.
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Title: O Portador
Character: Reginaldo
Released: September 10, 1991
Type: TV
After suffering a plane crash, Leo receives a blood transfusion and, some time later, discovers that he ended up contracting the AIDS virus. Desperate, he does his best to find out the identity of the bearer of the blood he received, and suffers from the prejudice of friends and people close to him.
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A Maldição do Sanpaku
Title: A Maldição do Sanpaku
Character: Bruce
Released: May 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Gafanhoto is a smuggler who tries to take a hit by stealing a valuable stone. He awakens the fury of the old boss of the gang, and ends up involving in the plot a former colleague, Poeta and his girlfriend Cris, a beautiful woman who brings in the eyes the mark of the tragedy.
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Title: Top Model
Character: Jacques Dupont
Released: September 18, 1989
Type: TV
Maria Eduarda "Duda" Pinheiro is a successful top model. After being hired to model Covery brand clothes, she meets the Kundera brothers, Alex and Gaspar, owners of the company. Gaspar, a former beatnik, is over 40 but still practices surfing, lives in a beach-side house and raises five children: Elvis (named after Elvis Presley), Ringo (Starr), Jane (Fonda), Olívia (Newton-John) and (John) Lennon, all from different mothers who left them with him. Anastácia "Naná" Passos, Duda's friend and mentor, loves him platonically, and rivalizes with Mariza Borges over him. Alex by contrast is a yuppie. He and their mother Morgana have a love-hate relationship and rivalry with his brother over Morgana's attention and the company. Alex begins to love Duda, however she falls in love with Lucas, a graffiti artist who is on the run from the São Paulo police due to his involvement in a crime there. He is also searching for his real father, and thinks it's either Alex or Gaspar.
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O Diabo na Cama
Title: O Diabo na Cama
Released: June 16, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Man in the Black Cape
Title: The Man in the Black Cape
Character: Adolfo
Released: March 31, 1986
Type: Movie
Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.
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Avaete, Seed of Revenge
Title: Avaete, Seed of Revenge
Character: Padre Bruno
Released: August 26, 1985
Type: Movie
Little Indian boy survives his tribe massacre, growing up together with his wish for revenge and his quest for his own identity. Based on a true story.
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Tropclip
Title: Tropclip
Character: Mr. Thompson
Released: July 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Enterprising youths live many adventures when they decide to start a business specializing in making video clips for rock groups.
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Quilombo
Title: Quilombo
Character: Samuel
Released: June 3, 1984
Type: Movie
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
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Bandidos da Falange
Title: Bandidos da Falange
Released: July 14, 1983
Type: Movie
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Doce Delírio
Title: Doce Delírio
Released: May 26, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Sétimo Sentido
Character: Jaime
Released: March 29, 1982
Type: TV
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Retrato Falado de Uma Mulher Sem Pudor
Title: Retrato Falado de Uma Mulher Sem Pudor
Character: Cacá Salles
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A model is found dead in the bathtub of her own mansion. A policeman tries to investigate, inquiring the rich and powerful men who knew her.
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O Paraíso Proibido
Title: O Paraíso Proibido
Character: Celso Felix
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: Movie
Celso Felix, a successful radio broadcaster in the metropolis, is disillusioned with his everyday life and leaves his wife and children to live in a small beach town on the brazilian coast.
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The Claudia Case
Title: The Claudia Case
Character: Pierre Dorf
Released: August 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress Márcia Rodrigues's sister, was found in the seashore. After Police investigation, it was found she had been murdered on a party by a rich industrialist's son and his socialite hairdresser buddy, after much sex, alcohol and drugs, specially Mandrax (methaqualone). She'd probably resisted being raped and the killers threw away the body in the water. One of the guys tried to escape flying to Switzerland.
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Title: Pai Herói
Character: Rafael Baldaracci
Released: January 29, 1979
Type: TV
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Inquietações de Uma Mulher Casada
Title: Inquietações de Uma Mulher Casada
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Unhappy with her marriage, woman looks for sexual satisfaction by any means.
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Bloody Gold
Title: Bloody Gold
Released: February 27, 1978
Type: Movie
The son of a millionaire who owns gold mines in Transopia, Africa, Antoine Leblanc, who lives in a mansion in Rio, one day receives a letter from his father asking him for help against the gold smugglers from Transopia to Brazil.
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A Santa Donzela
Title: A Santa Donzela
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Jordão Magalhães, a young plastic artist from a small inland city, is hired to sculpt the statue of the local virgin patron. The model that inspires her is Verinha, with whom she maintains a loving relationship.
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Touchy
Title: Touchy
Character: Luiz
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Drama teacher and writer of soap operas keeps his frustrating marriage because he doesn't have the existencial courage to get divorced. But he meets a temperamental and rich student, with whom he engages in a neurotic relationship.