The Alienist (film)

The Alienist
Film poster
Directed by	Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Written by	Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Based on	O Alienista by Machado de Assis
Produced by	Nelson Pereira dos Santos Luiz Carlos Barreto Roberto Farias César Thedim
Starring	Nildo Parente Isabel Ribeiro
Cinematography	Dib Lutfi
Edited by	Rafael Justo Valverde
Music by	Guilherme Magalhães Vaz
Production company	Difilm
Distributed by	Ipanema Filmes
Release date	29 November 1970 (1970-11-29)^[1]
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Brazil
Language	Portuguese

The Alienist (Portuguese: Azyllo Muito Louco, also known as O Alienista) is a 1970 Brazilian comedy film directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos. The film was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Cast

Nildo Parente as Father Simão Bacamarte
Isabel Ribeiro as D. Evarista
Arduíno Colassanti as Porfírio (as Arduino Colasanti)
Irene Stefânia as Porfírio's lover (as Irene Stephania)
Leila Diniz as Eudóxia
Ana Maria Magalhães
Nelson Dantas as The Accountant
Ney Santanna as Imprisoned madman (uncredited)

Production

It was shot in the city of Paraty in the state of Rio de Janeiro.^[3]

References

^ "Azyllo Muito Louco" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
^ "Festival de Cannes: The Alienist". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
^ Mattos, Carlos Alberto (2002). Walter Lima Júnior: viver cinema. Casa da Palavra. p. 143. ISBN 9788587220516.

External links

The Alienist at IMDb

Films directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Rio 40 Graus (1955)
Rio Zona Norte (1957)
Mandacaru Vermelho (1961)
El justicero (1963)
Vidas Secas (1963)
The Golden Mouth (1963)
Hunger for Love (1968)
The Alienist (1970)
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)
Quem é Beta? (1972)
The Amulet of Ogum (1974)
Tenda dos Milagres (1973)
The Highway of Life (1983)
Memoirs of Prison (1984)
Jubiabá (1986)
The Third Bank of the River (1994)
Raízes do Brasil (2003)
Brasília 18% (2006)
The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim (2012)
A Luz do Tom (2013)

v t e Works by Machado de Assis
Novels	Ressurreição (1872) A Mão e a Luva (1874) Helena (1876) The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) Quincas Borba (1891) Dom Casmurro (1899) Esau and Jacob (1904)
Novellas	The Psychiatrist/The Alienist (1881–1882)
Short stories	"The Case of the Stick" (1891)
Adaptations	The Alienist (1970) Memórias Póstumas (2001) Capitu (2008)

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