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Madame Satã

Country: Brazil | France, Language: Portugeuse, 105 mins

  • Director: Karim Ainouz
  • Writer: Karim Ainouz; Marcelo Gomes
  • Producer: Marc Beauchamps; Laurent Bocahut

CGiii Comment

Ainouz has talent seeping from every pore...

Ramos delivers a performance of grit, grace and grotesque.

The music thumps.

The story will have you unravel.

A fine film indeed.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos--better known as Madame Satã--was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time. The story begins in 1932, in Rio de Janeiro's bohemian Lapa district, when João Francisco is about to achieve his dream: becoming a stage star. In the sordid yet lively world of Lapa--populated by pimps, prostitutes and other denizens of Rio's underworld--João battles the streets and presides over a surrogate family that includes the charming prostitute Laurita, and her baby daughter whom everyone dotes on; the flamboyant hustler Taboo; João's teenage lover, Renatinho; and Amador, the owner of the Blue Danube club which is their second home. It is at the Blue Danube that street tough João begins to sing, and the mythic drag...

Cast & Characters

Lázaro Ramos as João Francisco dos Santos / Madame Satã;
Marcelia Cartaxo as Laurita;
Flavio Bauraqui as Tabu;
Fellipe Marques as Renatinho;
Renata Sorrah as Vitória;
Emiliano Queiroz as Amador;
Giovana Barbosa as Firmina;
Ricardo Blat as José;
Guilherme Piva as Álvaro
Marcelo Valle as Delegado;
Floriano Peixoto as Gregório;
Gero Camilo as Agapito;
Gláucio Gomes as Gordo no Gordo no Danúbio;
Orã Figueiredo as Policial;
Karine Teles