Estudantes is a 1935 Brazilian musical comedy film directed by Wallace Downey and starring Carmen Miranda, Barbosa Júnior, Mesquitinha, and Mário Reis.
[1] Initially titled Folia de Estudantes, this motion picture was shot entirely in a single week at the studios and labs of Cinédia.
Two other students, played by Mesquetinha and Bárbosa Júnior, also vie for her affections, giving rise to a wealth of comic incidents.
), performed by Mário Reis as he serenades Carmen Miranda's character, subsequently became a huge hit throughout Brazil.
Another anonymous review by a certain A. F. in the newspaper Diário Português of July 1935 argued that Estudantes's greatest value was its spontaneity and the promise that it and its young creators represented for the future of the cinema industry in Brazil.