The Story of Fausta
Directed by Bruno BarretoFausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. The elderly but randy Zé, who carries advertising signs at the train station, buys her perfume and invites her to spend Sundays with him. She accepts. After João injures his foot, stops work, drinks more, and wallows in self pity, Fausta sees Zé as her way out, if he'll help her buy the land and build a house. Through it all she's a scourge, arguing, jeering and being jeered, but also displaying the spirit and energy of her idol, Tina Turner.
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The Story of Fausta was released on October 5, 1988.
The Story of Fausta was directed by Bruno Barreto.
The Story of Fausta has a runtime of 90m.
The Story of Fausta was produced by Luiz Carlos Barreto, Lucy Barreto.
Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. The elderly but randy Zé, who carries advertising signs at the train station, buys her perfume and invites her to spend Sundays with him. She accepts. After João injures his foot, stops work, drinks more, and wallows in self pity, Fausta sees Zé as her way out, if he'll help her buy the land and build a house. Through it all she's a scourge, arguing, jeering and being jeered, but also displaying the spirit and energy of her idol, Tina Turner.
The key characters in The Story of Fausta are Fausta (Betty Faria), Zé da Placa (Brandão Filho), João (Daniel Filho).
The Story of Fausta is a Drama, Romance film.
The Story of Fausta has an audience rating of 6.4 out of 10.