Iracema (1976)

Director
Jorge Bodanzky; Orlando Senna

Main cast
Edna de Cássia; Paulo César Peréio

Genres


Description
Truck driver travelling along the Transamazonic Road, a huge highway in Brazil that crosses the Amazon forest, meets a prostitute and slowly becomes aware of the problems in that region.


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