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VANDA

VANDA

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VANDA
Year
2022
Broadcaster
OPTO (PT)
Streaming
Lionsgate+ (BR)
Polar+ (FR)
Hulu (USA)
SBS (AUS)
Format
8x50’
Genre
Drama
Coproduction
SPi
La Panda (ES)
Legendary Global (EUA)
Executive Production
Anne Thomopoulos
Elisa Lleras
José Amaral
Pablo Gómez-Castro
Created by
Patrícia Müller
Written with
Carmén Jimenez
Directed by
Simão Cayatte
Selected for
Berlinale (1)
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Synopsis

VANDA

 

Vanda Lopes, 37, is happily married and has two children. She owns a hairdresser in Costa da Caparica and lives a simple life. Vanda's world falls apart on the day she catches her husband, Mário, with another woman. Mário also betrayed her financially and stole everything from her. Vanda doesn't have a cent and can't take it anymore. Desperate, she gets a plastic pistol and enters a branch of a bank.

 

From the moment she makes the first robbery, Vanda begins to be investigated by the police. Elisa Gonçalves is a forensic psychologist who is surprised by Vanda, starting to pursue this robber who breaks all known patterns of this type of crime: Vanda is a woman and acts alone, with a gun and the same black disguise. That's why they call her the "Black Widow".

 

Vanda will be arrested when she makes an emotional mistake: being a mother will force her to make a fatal choice...

 

In total, there will be 12 heists full of adventures and creative thefts that push the story forward and change Vanda's life forever.

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Cast

Gabriela Barros
Vanda Lopes Gabriela Barros
João Baptista
Mário Lopes João Baptista
Joana de Verona
Elisa Gonçalves Joana de Verona
Santiago André
Jorge Lopes Santiago André
Mariana Cardoso
Gabriela Lopes Mariana Cardoso
Isabél Zuaa
Mónica Évora Isabél Zuaa
Mauro Hermínio
Alfredo Évora Mauro Hermínio
Raúl Prieto
Gonzalo Ramirez Raúl Prieto
Pedro Casablanc
El Eremita Pedro Casablanc
Paulo Calatré
Manuel Paulo Calatré
Tomás Taborda
Cobra Tomás Taborda

Vanda Lopes

Gabriela Barros
Vanda is not one for words, but she says what she thinks, without measuring too many consequences. She does not complain and refuses to be seen as a fragile or dependent woman. She rejects violence to achieve her ends, even if the actions are of great affective violence for her and her "victims" - the people who work at the branches of the banks she robs. She represents the true "anti-heroine", in the sense that she uses the socially wrong to achieve her personal good.
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