The Option(Aopção ou As Rosas da Estrada)
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Brazil · 1981
1h 28m
Director Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias
Starring Carmem Angélica, Nere di Passi, Carmem Ortega, Virgílio Roveda
Genre Drama
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The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.
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