
Caramuru: Brazil Reinvented
2001 • 85 minutes
ComedyRomanceHistory
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.

Selton Mello
Diogo Álvares, Caramuru

Camila Pitanga
Paraguaçu

Luís Melo
Vasco de Athayde

Tonico Pereira
Itaparica

Deborah Secco
Moema

Débora Bloch
Isabelle

Pedro Paulo Rangel
Dom Jayme

Diogo Vilela
Heitor

Marco Nanini
Narrator