Malu

Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic past.

Cast

Yara de Novaes

as Malu

Juliana Carneiro da Cunha

as Dona Lili

Carol Duarte

as Joana

Átila Bee

as Tibira

Márcio Vito

as Padre

Marina Provenzzano

as Clara

Felipe Haiut

as Rodrigo

Cristiane Morilo

as Galba

Jersiano Prudencio Vieira

as Gerson

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