The Desire

Widowed one year ago, Eleonora, a 33-year-old woman from Sao Paulo's upper bourgeoisie, lives alone, unsuited to her husband's absence, an intellectual frustrated and torn between the need for transcendence and a strong sexual compulsion. The life of the couple, although not happy, was intense. However, the presence of her a long-time friend Ana Maria, just arrived from Paris, a middle-class university student, is staying at his house. The two go to the site of Eleonora and she remembers her life with Marcelo and his death by drowning.

• Release date
• July 18, 1975
• Runtime
• 99 min
• Genres
• Drama, Horror
• Director
• Walter Hugo Khouri

Cast

Fernando Amaral Marcelo Selma Egrei Ana Maria Lilian Lemmertz Eleonora Kate Hansen Sérgio Hingst

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