Dina and Django
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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.
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Cast
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María Santiago
Dina
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Luís Lucas
Django
Known for
Imagine
Manuela de Freitas
patroa
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Sinde Filipe
patrão
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João Perry
amigo dos patrões
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Ruy Furtado
Benvindo Rosário, o penhorista
Also in
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Canto e Castro
homem no autocarro
Known for
Foreign Land
D'Artagnan's Daughter
António Montez
motorista de táxi
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Just Pedro
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Margarida Carpinteiro
professora
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Manuela Fernandes
amiga de Dina
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Geny Frias
mulher do penhorista
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Benvinda Bento
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No other roles listed
Solveig Nordlund Director · Luiza Neto Jorge Writer Acácio de Almeida Cinematographer
First release September 14, 1981 · Produced in Portugal · Original title Dina e Django
Production
Grupo Zero
Production
Portugal
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Dina e Django
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
Release dates
Portugal · September 14, 1981
Premiere · Figueira da Foz Film Festival
Portugal · April 29, 1983
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Portugal
May 20, 1999 · Theatrical · Re-release
September 20, 2007 · Limited theatrical · Cinemateca Portuguesa
November 1, 2023 · Limited theatrical · Porto (Batalha Centro de Cinema)
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