Based on the novel Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, by Lima Barreto, published in serial form in 1911, and as a book in 1915.
The titular character is a civil servant who gains a reputation as an eccentric for his extreme nationalism. He faces a series of vicissitudes as a consequence of that obsession.
Lacklustre comedy, based on a book I have not read, and from which, based on summaries available on the internet, it departs on several instances. The theme of the movie is the possibility of Progress in a backward environment; it shows how one individual's good intentions are often misguided, or doomed, or both. This theme is probably taken from the source novel, but it is not satisfyingly developed for the screen. The competent work of most of its actors gives the movie a modicum of watchability.
Rating: 30
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