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Joanna Francesa is a brésilien film of genre Drama directed by Carlos Diegues released in USA on 28 april 1981 with Jeanne Moreau
Joanna Francesa (1973)
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Add to a movie listJoanna Francesa is a 1973 French-Brazilian romantic drama film directed by Carlos Diegues and starring Jeanne Moreau, Eliezer Gomes and Carlos Kroeber. In the 1930s, Joanna, the owner of a brothel in São Paulo, goes to Alagoas and falls in love with a customer.
^ CLIParser at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
^ "Joanna Francesa" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
Actors
Jeanne Moreau
(Joanna)
Eliezer Gomes
(Gismundo)
Carlos Henrique Kroeber
(Aureliano)
Eliezer Gomes
(Honório)
Helber Rengel
(Lianinho)
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