Who Killed Anabela?
1956 film directed by Dezső Ákos Hamza
Who Killed Anabela? (Portuguese: Quem Matou Anabela?) is a 1956 Brazilian mystery crime film directed by Dezső Ákos Hamza and starring Ana Esmeralda, Jaime Costa and Procópio Ferreira. Both the director and the cinematographer Rudolf Icsey were exiles from Communist Hungary.
Cast
Ana Esmeralda
Jaime Costa
Procópio Ferreira
Ruth de Souza
Carlos Araújo
Carlos Cotrim
Ary Fernandes
Francisco Camargo
João Franco
Lourdes Freire
Estela Gomes
Nydia Lícia
Olga Navarro
Jorge Pisani
Marina Prata
Américo Taricano
Aurélio Teixeira
Carlos Zara
References
Bibliography
Dennison, Stephanie & Shaw, Lisa. Popular Cinema in Brazil, 1930–2001. Manchester University Press, 2019.
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