In Vanda's Room

6.9(49 votes)

2001

2h 51m

Drama

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

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Production

Companies:

Instituto Português da Arte Cinematográfica e Audiovisual

Contracosta Produções

Pandora Film

Languages

Original:pt

Spoken:

Portuguese

Cast

Vanda Duarte

Herself

Lena Duarte

Herself

Zita Duarte

Herself

Manuel Gomes Miranda

Diogo Pires Miranda

Evangelina Nelas

Miquelina Barros

Paulo Jorge Gonçalves

António Semedo Moreno

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Paulo Nunes

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Pedro Lanban

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