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Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica ()


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A truck driver traveling along the Transamazônica, the big highway in Brazil that crosses the Amazon rainforest, meets a teenage prostitute and gradually becomes aware of the problems in that region.

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Sebastião, aka"Tião Brazil Grande"
Edna de Cássia ...
Iracema
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lúcio Dos Santos
Elma Martins
Natal
Fernando Neves
Wilmar Nunes
Sidney Piñon
Rose Rodrigues
Conceição Senna

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Jorge Bodanzky
Orlando Senna

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Jorge Bodanzky ... ()
 
Hermanno Penna ... ()
 
Orlando Senna ... ()

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Malu Alencar ... associate producer
Wolf Gauer ... associate producer
Orlando Senna ... producer
Achim Tappen ... associate producer

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Jorge Bodanzky
Achim Tappen

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Jorge Bodanzky

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Jorge Bodanzky
Eva Grundman

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Orlando Senna

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Achim Tappen ... sound

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Plot Summary

In the 70's, the fifteen years old whore Iracema meets the truck driver Sebastião, a.k.a. "Tião Brazil Grande", and travels with him along the Amazon Forest through Transamazônica, the longest Brazilian highway recently built by the military government to bring development to the area settling landless peasants. When Tião drops her on the road, Iracema is submitted to the most decadent types of prostitution to survive. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Also Known As
  • Iracema (Brazil)
  • Iracema (West Germany)
  • Iracema (France)
  • Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica (Ecuador)
  • Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica (Japan, Japanese title)
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  • 91 min
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Did You Know?

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Trivia In a scene where Iracema is serving food to a couple of truck drivers, she suddenly starts to cry. In the "Making Of" of the Brazillian DVD release of the film, actress Edna de Cássia stated that she was crying because she didn't want to serve food to Indians and because she didn't want to be considered a Native Brazilian herself. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Cinema Novo (2016). See more »
Soundtracks Você é doida demais See more »

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