Cinema
O Caçador de Diamantes
Vittorio Capellaro · 1934
Synopsis
On his twentieth birthday, Fernando receives a sword from the hands of his fencing master, Garro, and sets off on an adventure into the hinterland. He loves Maria, but the girl's parents prefer a richer suitor, Luiz. Armed with a map that leads to the Island of Diamonds, Fernando leads an expedition with his friends João and Pedro and the Indian Imbu, on a route that crosses the bandeira of his rival.
Context
The film blends the official account of the bandeirantes, those expeditions that set out from São Paulo towards the interior, with the style of cloak-and-dagger stories, and makes of their troops a chivalry with a code of honour, according to the entry devoted to it by Itaú Cultural. Conceived as a superproduction, with costumes from the Casa Teatral Temaghi, numerous extras and the Vitaphone sound process, it was shot in Jabaquara park and, according to the critic B. J. Duarte, on the banks of the Tietê and the Pinheiros. Adalberto Kemeny and Rodolfo Lustig are credited with the photography. Distributed by Paramount, it stayed in cinemas a little over a week.
Who it is for
A costume adventure film, presented today without sound, the sound portion of the print having been lost.
Prizes and reception
Well received by critics (the magazine Cinearte judged it its director's best film), it was a commercial failure; it was restored in 1997.
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