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Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil

6.3 85 mins Comedy   Romance   History   2001
Globo Filmes   Lereby Produções  
Director(s): Guel Arraes

Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last.

Casts of Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil

Selton Mello

as Diogo Álvares, Caramuru

Camila Pitanga

as Paraguaçu

Luís Melo

as Vasco de Athayde

Tonico Pereira

as Itaparica

Deborah Secco

as Moema

Débora Bloch

as Isabelle

Pedro Paulo Rangel

as Dom Jayme

Diogo Vilela

as Heitor

Marco Nanini

as Narrator

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