Oh yes it is... I saw the movie long ago and was convinced there were old-style Vedettes there (but I guess they were all Aero-Willies), so when I saw a Vedette I wasn't looking at the picture much...

Surprisingly, it looks like we really do not have any Brazilian Vedettes but the Jangada... It is such a staple of the Brazilian landscape of the past decades that I was somehow convinced we must have tons of those...