![]() ( January 2018)įilming began in June 1998 in the cities of Salvador and Milagres, Bahia. Helped by her two vagabond friends, Bucha ( Lucci Ferreira) and Chico ( Lázaro Ramos), and by her boyfriend, Alexandre Pires (portrayed by himself), she garners the strength to fight Pierre back and live freely as she wishes. Carla, having an innate talent for dancing, soon is spotted by eccentric talent manager Pierre ( Perry Salles) and his personal assistant Beto (Val Perré) she is initially enthusiastic about her newly acquired fame, but soon discovers Pierre is an unscrupulous man that is only interested into the profits of exploiting her. After her mother dies, Carla and her father decide to move to Salvador in order to achieve better life conditions. Released in theaters on September 4, 1998, Cinderela Baiana was a critical and commercial failure, and to this day it is considered to be one of the worst films ever made by the Brazilian film industry.Ĭarla Perez (portrayed by Carla Fabianny as a child and by herself as an adult) lives with her father Raimundo (Armindo Bião) and unnamed tuberculous mother (Juliana Calil) in a small, poor shack located somewhere in the middle of the sertão of Bahia. ![]() ![]() The film is noted for being the debuts of Perez, then-unknown actors Lázaro Ramos and Lucci Ferreira, and musician Alexandre Pires (frontman of samba group Só Pra Contrariar and Carla Perez's then-boyfriend) on a feature film, and also counts with cameos by singers Netinho and Cátia Guimma, portraying themselves. ![]() It is a heavily fictionalized biography of dancer Carla Perez, famous for being a former member of axé group É o Tchan!. Cinderela Baiana ( Portuguese for Bahian Cinderella) is a 1998 Brazilian semi-fictionalized biographical romantic comedy film directed by Conrado Sanchez (who also wrote the screenplay, even though he was uncredited for it) and produced by Antônio Polo Galante (his last credited work prior to his retirement in the same year). ![]()
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