Cinderella Baiana
Directed by Conrado Sanchez
A warm, music-driven family drama about a poor girl who discovers her gift for dance in Salvador and uses her success to uplift her community.
A poor family, lives in a city near Salvador. The father is cleaner and, mother and daughter help making small services. Until they decide to try the luck in the big city and the father, João, get a job near Pelourinho, next to a dance academy. The daughter, Carla, in contacting music, discovers her true vocation and becomes a very successful dancer. But she does not let himself take away from fame and back to his origins, meets with poor children and teaches them to dance.
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