Lampião E Maria Bonita (1982 TV Miniseries)
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''Lampião e Maria Bonita'' is a Brazilian
miniseries In the United States, a miniseries or mini-series is a television show or series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Many miniseries can also be referred to, and shown, as a television film. " Limited series" is ...
produced by
TV Globo TV Globo (stylized as tvglobo; , ), formerly known as Rede Globo de Televisão (; shortened to Rede Globo) or simply known as Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air Television broadcasting, television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto M ...
and shown from April 26 to May 5, 1982, in 8 chapters. Written by
Aguinaldo Silva Aguinaldo Silva ( Carpina, 7 June 1943) is a Brazilian Emmy The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throug ...
and
Doc Comparato Luís Filipe Loureiro Comparato (born in 1949), known as Doc Comparato, is a Brazilian writer of miniseries, television series and Brazilian cinema. Career He was a founder of the Centro de Criação da Rede Globo TV Globo (stylized as tvg ...
, it was directed by and .
Nelson Xavier Nelson Agostini Xavier (; 30 August 1941 – 10 May 2017) was a Brazilian actor. He appeared in more than 95 films and television shows between 1959 and 2017. He starred in the 1964 film ''Os Fuzis'', which won the Silver Bear, Silver Bear ...
and
Tânia Alves Tânia Maria Rego Alves (born September 12, 1953 in Bonito de Santa Fé) is a Brazilian actress, dancer, singer and businesswoman. Her most recent work was the telenovela ''Araguaia (telenovela), Araguaia'', Walther Negrão, Rede Globo. She als ...
played the main characters,
Lampião "Captain" Virgulino Ferreira da Silva (; 7 June 1897 – 28 July 1938), better known as Lampião (older spelling: ''Lampeão'', , meaning "lantern" or "oil lamp"), was probably the most successful traditional Brazilian bandit leader of the 20th c ...
and Maria Bonita, in a plot that tells the story of the last months of the life of the '' cangaceiro'' Virgulino Ferreira da Silva.


Synopsis

The plot tells the story of the last months of Lampião and Maria Bonita. The story begins when Lampião's gang kidnaps the English geologist Steve Chandler. Using Joana Bezerra as an intermediary, the group demands 40,000
contos de réis The ''real'' (, meaning "royal", plural: ''réis'' or rchaic''reais'') was the unit of currency of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire from around 1430 until 1911. It replaced the '' dinheiro'' at the rate of 1 real = libras = 70 soldos = 840 din ...
as payment from the Government of Bahia. Sergeant Libório passes the note with the information to the Governor, but it later falls into the hands of journalist Lindolfo Macedo, who discovers the Governor's plan to kidnap Argemiro, Lampião's brother unrelated to the cangaço, intending to exploit the fact. Together with the British Embassy, the government sends Lieutenant Zé Rufino, a persecutor of Lampião. At a certain point in the plot, Maria Bonita disappears to have an abortion and, when she returns ill, she is taken into the care of the geologist who falls in love with the girl. After the Embassy refuses to pay the ransom, Lieutenant Zé Batista's motorcade finds the couple, who, at dawn on July 28, 1938, are machine-gunned without any possibility of defense.


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Production

It was TV Globo's first experience with the miniseries format. The miniseries was awarded the gold medal at the ''New York International Film and Television Festival''.


Exhibition

It was first reprised between March 5 and 16, 1984 at 10:15 p.m., replacing '. It was shown for the second time in July 1988 (only for the
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); in a compact version of 5 chapters. The third time was in 1990 at the ''25 Years Festival''. The fourth time between June 24 and 28, 1991, in the ' session with the same compact version of 5 chapters, replacing ''
O Tempo e o Vento ''O Tempo e o Vento'' (''Time and the Wind'') is a trilogy of novels written by the Brazilian author Erico Verissimo. Confusingly, the first part of the series, ''O Continente'', was translated as ''Time and the Wind'', giving the impression t ...
''. The most recent reprise, a fifth time, on January 22, 2015, at the ''Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos'' ''Festival'', in a special edition, as a telefilm, compressed into two hours.


See also

* Virgulino Ferreira da Silva - Lampião *
Cangaço ''Cangaço'' () was a phenomenon of Northeast Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This region of Brazil is known for its aridness and hard way of life, and in a form of "social banditry" against the government, many men and women d ...


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* {{IMDb title, id=0209668 Portuguese-language television shows 1982 Brazilian television series debuts 1982 Brazilian television series endings TV Globo