Dr. Gama

Dr. Gama (2021)

Doutor Gama

Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.

Date of release
2021-07-29
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Jeferson De

Casting

Interesting facts

Dr. Gama is a 2021 Brazilian biographical drama film directed by Jeferson De and produced by Paranoid Filmes, with Globo Filmes and Buda Filmes as associate producers. With script by Luiz Antonio, it tells the story of journalist, poet, and jurist Luís Gama and is starred by César Mello, Ângelo Fernandes, and Pedro Guilherme who play the same character in three different phases. Mariana Nunes and Samira Carvalho play Claudina Fortunato, Luiz Gama's wife in two different phases, and the film also features the talents of Romeu Evaristo, Teka Romualdo, Sidney Santiago, Dani Ornellas, Alan Rocha, Erom Cordeiro, Johnny Massaro, Higor Campagnaro, and Isabél Zuaa.

Development

The film, which originally had the name Prisioneiro da Liberdade and starred Fabrício Boliveira, was co-produced by Globo Filmes and Paranoid, with associate production by Buda Filmes and distribution by Elo Company and had to recreate the São Paulo and Salvador regions of the 19th century having to shoot in Paraty, a colonial-era town whose architecture has been greatly preserved, where the team had to adapt the set in order to recreate the citi…

With the objective of telling the leading role of the character in just 90 minutes, the team sought historical research support and advice in all departments of the project. Historian Lígia Fonseca Ferreira, who researches Gama's work, served as a consultant for the film.

The script was written by Luiz Antônio and director Jeferson De received the first version already in 2014, recalling that: "This is the story I would like to tell..." and that in Brazilian cinema, "...about Luiz Gama no one had looked into it." The trial dramatized in the film did not take place, but was based on other cases Gama worked with.

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