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Original name: Greta
English name: Greta
Year: 2019
Run time: 97’
Language: Portuguese
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Brazil
Director: Armando Praça
Producer: Nara Aragão, João Vieira Jr, Armando Praça
Cast: Marco Nanini, Denise Weinberg, Demick Lopes,
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Screenplay: Armando Praça
Cinematographer: Ivo Lopes Araújo
Editor: Karen Harley
Sound Designer: Waldir Xavier
Costume Designer: Thaís de Campos
Production Designer: Diogo Costa
Production Company: CarnavalFilmes, SegredoFilmes.
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Armando Praça is a Brazilian sociologist and filmmaker born in 1978 in Aracati, Ceará. Has worked as assistant director, screenwriter and acting coach with renowned filmmakers in Brazil such as Marcelo Gomes, KarimAinouz, MárciaFaria, SérgioRezende, Halder Gomes and RosembergCariry. His short and medium-length films include: A MulherBiônica, exhibited at the Clermont Ferrand Short FF, O Amor doPalhaço, Origem: Destino and Parque de Diversões. Greta, his first feature film, in 2019 was presented at 2019 Berlinale.
Pedro, a 70-year-old gay nurse is taking care of Daniela, his ailing transgender friend. In order to find her a vacant hospital bed, he decides to help an arrested and wounded criminal, Jean, to escape. While he is hiding Jean from the police, they find themselves in a power struggle that turns into affection. Their relationship does not only help Pedro to overcome his solitude, but also leads him to accept his true self. It is a tale of friendship, love, sex and age. Surrounded as he is by sickness, death and other disasters on a daily basis, Pedro is possessed of the kind of strength of character that means he is not easily fazed. Not even when he makes a surprising discovery about Jean.
