The Alienist
Bacamarte, a Brazil-born Portuguese (when Brazil was a colony), is a prominent physician whose sincere obsession for discovering a universal method to cure pathological disorders drives inhabitants of the small Brazilian town of Itaguaí to fear, conspiracy, and revolutionary attempts.
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Selton Mello Director · Machado de Assis Author
Original title O Alienista
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Original title
O Alienista
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
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