The Three Marias (2002) [N/A]

Featuring:
Marieta Severo, Júlia Lemmertz, Maria Luísa Mendonça

Written by:
Heitor Dhalia
Wilson Freire

Directed by:
Aluizio Abranches


Release Date:
August 2, 2002

Original Title:
As Três Marias

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Lama Filmes
Quanta Centro de Produções Cinematográficas

Production Countries:
Brazil

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 89

A mother, with her three daughters, exacts revenge on her former fiancé for killing her husband and sons.

In Bahia, a woman spurns a suitor she'd rejected thirty years before. In response, he and his sons sadistically kill her husband and sons. She gathers her three daughters and swears revenge, sending each to hire a killer who's to bring her the head of his victim. Maria Francisca is to hire Zé das Cobras, who eats snakes for courage and won't talk directly to women. Maria Rosa is to hire Chief Tenório, a righteous policeman currently on the hunt for a mad dog. Maria Pia is to hire Jesuíno Cruz, whom she must first spring from prison, and who cuts his victim's in half so that God and Satan get their share. Will the daughters succeed? Will justice be done?

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Rankings and Honors

The Three Marias (2002) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes 40%
Metacritic 45/100
Awards Won: 2 wins & 10 nominations

Art Direction:
Bruno Testore Schmidt

Costumer:
Bruno Testore Schmidt

Director:
Aluizio Abranches

Director of Photography:
Marcelo Durst

Editor:
Aluizio Abranches
Karen Harley

Executive Producer:
Bia Castro

First Assistant Director:
Janaína Diniz Guerra

Makeup Artist:
Martín Macías Trujillo

Music:
André Abujamra

Music Director:
André Abujamra

Producer:
Eva Mariani
Aluizio Abranches

Second Assistant Director:
Fábio S. Limma

Sound:
José Moreau Louzeiro

Sound Mixer:
David Miranda

Sound Supervisor:
Miriam Biderman

Special Sound Effects:
Ricardo Reis

Writer:
Heitor Dhalia
Wilson Freire

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