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A red-light district in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The camera is admitted into a "running house". Love for sale looks like a routine, dreary assembly line exercise here, sometimes almost like a comedy.
Cast
Ariadina Paulino, Elizabeth Miguel, Shirley Santos, Carlos Francisco
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