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Monica e a Sereia do Rio is a 1987 Brazilian animated film directed by Mauricio de Sousa and Walter Hugo Khouri. It is the fourth film based on the Monica and Friends comic book series, created by Mauricio de Sousa. The film consists of four stories and features the participation of singer Tetê Espíndola, who appears in live-action alongside the animated characters. The scenes were filmed at the Rio Quente lodge in Goiás. For this movie, Mauricio followed the structure of his first feature film, dividing it into separate stories. The final segment, "A Sereia do Rio", was inspired by an animated short from the early 1980s, originally intended for broadcast on TV Globo.