Adaptation of Machado de Assis’s classic novel “Dom Casmurro”. Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not really his.
Acting
Othon Bastos simmers with quiet, devastating suspicion.
Cinematography
Gloomy Rio interiors mirror Bentinho's claustrophobic mind.
Writing
Adapts Machado's ambiguity without easy answers.
Director
Paulo César Saraceni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Machado de Assis wrote Dom Casmurro in 1899; the novel's ambiguity sparked over a century of Brazilian literary debate about Capitu's guilt.
Director Paulo César Saraceni was a key figure in Brazil's Cinema Novo movement, bringing gritty social realism to this bourgeois psychological drama.
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