- Country: Brazil
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1988-10-05
- Director: Bruno Barreto
- Writers: Naum Alves de Souza
- Language: Portuguese
- Stars: Betty Faria , Daniel Filho , Brandão Filho , Cristina Pereira , Antonio Pedro , Maria Alves , Expedito Barreira , Nica Bomfim , Mario Borges , Neusa Borges
- Runtime: 90 min
- Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination
- AKA: Romance da Empregada (Brazil) , Romance da Empregada , The Story of Fausta , The Story of Fausta (United Kingdom) , The Story of Fausta (United States of America)
- Plot: Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. The elderly but randy Zé, who carries advertising signs at the train station, buys her perfume and invites her to spend Sundays with him. She accepts. After João injures his foot, stops work, drinks more, and wallows in self pity, Fausta sees Zé as her way out, if he'll help her buy the land and build a house. Through it all she's a scourge, arguing, jeering and being jeered, but also displaying the spirit and energy of her idol, Tina Turner.
- IMDB:tt0096006
The Story of Fausta Cast · · · ALL
Bruno Barreto
Director
Betty Faria
Fausta
Brandão Filho
Zé da Placa
Daniel Filho
João
Cristina Pereira
Coizinha
Analú Prestes
Duse Nacarati
Guida Vianna
Lutero Luiz
Marcos Palmeira
Luiz
Tamara Taxman
Thelma Reston
Tonico Pereira
Vick Militello
Stela Freitas
Antonio Pedro
Joaquim
Ivan Setta
Mario Borges
Neusa Borges
Cláudia Jimenez
Raul Gazolla
David Pinheiro
Zezé Polessa
Maria Alves
Fafy Siqueira
Procópio Mariano