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03/04/1998 Drama 1h 51m
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Between hope and solitude, two lives cross and reinvent themselves

Overview

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

  1. Walter Salles

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Fernanda Montenegro

    Isadora 'Dora' Teixeira

  2. Vinícius de Oliveira

    Josué Fontenele de Paiva

  3. Marília Pêra

    Irene

  4. Othon Bastos

    César

  5. Otávio Augusto

    Pedrão

  6. Matheus Nachtergaele

    Isaías Paiva

  7. Caio Junqueira

    Moisés Paiva

  8. Stela Freitas

    Yolanda

  9. Maria Menezes

    Waitress

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-09-18
“Dora” (Fernanda Montenegro) used to be a school teacher, but now she sits at a table in the station in Rio de Janeiro and writes letters for the illiterate traveller for a few réals a time. She thinks little of a woman and her young son who stop by, except perhaps that he isn’t the most trusting of boys, but when a tragedy promptly befalls this pair she finds herself being asked to write another letter by the young “Josué” (Vinícius de Oliviera) - who’s still fairly suspicious that she never posted the last one! This one is to his dad in a remote town but what is he going to do...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Portuguese

Budget
$2,900,000.00

Revenue
$5,596,708.00

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