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Casa de areia

"Áurea's saga begins in 1910, in Maranhão, where her fanatical husband has relocated his family to start a farm. Desperate and pregnant, Áurea longs to return to the city, but cannot traverse the dunes with her aging mother Maria in tow. When calamity strikes, the two women find themselves stranded. Eventually, they settle among the shifting sands, and Áurea finds peace, but her passionate daughter, Maria, longs to explore the world beyond the dunes"--DVD sleeve. "In 1910, in Maranhão, the insane Vasco de Sá moves with his pregnant urban wife Áurea and her mother Maria to a wilderness land near a lagoon and surrounded by shifting dunes. [Soon] his workers abandon the place, and Vasco dies, leaving the two women alone and without any resources. They are supported by a local son of a former slave, Massu, and they learn how to survive [raising] goats. Along the years, Áurea raises her daughter Maria, hoping to move back to the capital someday. Her hope becomes anguish and despair as years go by, until [she finally adapts] to the place"--Internet movie database, as viewed on August 15, 2008.

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  • "Maison de sable"
  • "Casa de Areia"
  • "Casa de areia"
  • "maison de sable"

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  • "A woman and her mother are sent to an island and spend almost 60 years trying to leave it. Follow three generations of the woman's family as they all try and find happiness on a lagoon surrounded by shifting dunes."
  • ""Áurea's saga begins in 1910, in Maranhão, where her fanatical husband has relocated his family to start a farm. Desperate and pregnant, Áurea longs to return to the city, but cannot traverse the dunes with her aging mother Maria in tow. When calamity strikes, the two women find themselves stranded. Eventually, they settle among the shifting sands, and Áurea finds peace, but her passionate daughter, Maria, longs to explore the world beyond the dunes"--DVD sleeve. "In 1910, in Maranhão, the insane Vasco de Sá moves with his pregnant urban wife Áurea and her mother Maria to a wilderness land near a lagoon and surrounded by shifting dunes. [Soon] his workers abandon the place, and Vasco dies, leaving the two women alone and without any resources. They are supported by a local son of a former slave, Massu, and they learn how to survive [raising] goats. Along the years, Áurea raises her daughter Maria, hoping to move back to the capital someday. Her hope becomes anguish and despair as years go by, until [she finally adapts] to the place"--Internet movie database, as viewed on August 15, 2008."@en
  • "A woman and her mother are sent to an island and spend almost 60 years trying to leave it. Follow three generations of the womanś family as they all try and find happiness on a lagoon surrounded by shifting dunes."@en
  • "Aurea is brought to the northern Brazilian town of Maranhao by her insane husband Vasco, who suffers from delusions that the barren land may be profitably farmed. A calamitous turn of events leaves Aurea, now pregnant, and her mother, Maria, alone in the desert in a house full of sand."
  • "The story of a mother and daughter who find themselves living on the sandy coast of northern Brazil. Áurea finds peace there, but her passionate daughter, Maria, longs to explore the world beyond the dunes."
  • "A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it."
  • "A man moves his pregnant wife and her mother to a desert in north Brazil; after tragedy strikes leaving the two women alone with the baby, they spend the rest of their lives hoping to leave the encroaching dunes for good."

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  • "Melodramas (Motion pictures)"
  • "Women"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Foreign films"
  • "Brazilian films"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Motion pictures, Portuguese"
  • "Features"@en
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Fiction"

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  • "The house of sand = Casa de areia"
  • "The House of Sand"
  • "The house of sand Casa de areia"
  • "The House of sand Casa de Areia"
  • "Casa de areia"@en
  • "The house of sand Casa de areia = La maison de sable"
  • "The house of sand"@en
  • "The house of sand"

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