Dina and Django

April. 29,1983      
Rating:
6.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories -- activities that do nothing to improve her dim perspective of reality. Due to these handicaps and her own inexperience, she gets involved with Django (Luis Lucas), a shady character who decides to use her as bait to attract men and then rob them. One day when both are in a taxi with robbery in mind, the driver gets suspicious so Django shoots him, and so does Dina. She escapes and runs away -- though it seems like she has learned too little too late. This story unfolds against a time of upheaval in Portugal (mid-1970s) when the military government is formulating a constitution and social changes are happening everywhere.

Luís Lucas as  Django
Manuela de Freitas as  Dina's Boss
Sinde Filipe as  Dina's Boss
João Perry as  The Bosses' Friend
Ruy Furtado as  Pawnbroker
Canto e Castro as  Man in the Bus
António Montez as  Taxi Driver
Margarida Carpinteiro as  Dina's Teacher
Marcello Urgeghe as  Young Man at the Bar

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Reviews

MoPoshy
1983/04/29

Absolutely brilliant

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Chirphymium
1983/04/30

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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StyleSk8r
1983/05/01

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Kien Navarro
1983/05/02

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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