''The Bewitching Braid'' (, pt, A Trança Feiticeira) is a 1996 film directed by Cai Yuanyuan (蔡元元) and produced by Cai An'an (蔡安安 aka "Choi Unun"). It was the first film produced in

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. The Cai brothers hoped to make a film that showcased the territory. The production company was jointly owned by the two brothers. The budgeting of the film, shot in 1995, was for 8,000,000 Macau patacas, with 2,000,000 patacas of that used for distribution purposes. It is an adaptation of written by Henrique de Senna Fernandes, written originally in Portuguese as ''A Trança Feiticeira''; the English translation of this novel was published under the same English name, ''The Bewitching Braid'', by

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. Most of the filming locations were in

Portuguese Macau Portuguese Macau (officially the Province of Macau until 1976, and then the Autonomous Region of Macau from 1976 to 1999) was a Portuguese colony that existed from the first official Portuguese settlement in 1557 to the end of colonial ru ...

and

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. The film is about a relationship between a Portuguese man and a Chinese woman. The story is set in the 1930s.

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* as Adozindo () *

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as A-Leng () * as Adozindo's father * * Roberto Candeias as Florêncio ()

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*
The source novel on Google Books
(English translation published by

, 2004, translation by David Brookshaw) *
Distributed in the United States
by

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