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Zuzu Angel

Zuzu Angel

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 4, 2006

Runtime

1h 48m

Genres

Drama, History

User Score

67%

Original Title

Zuzu Angel

Production Companies

Globo Filmes, Lereby Produções, Toscana Film Commission, Warner Bros. Pictures

Director

Sérgio Rezende

Description

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.