Name: O Grande Mentecapto
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1989-05-15
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Diogo Vilela, Débora Bloch, Geraldo Carrato

Amusing adventures of writer Fernando Sabino's fantastic realism character Geraldo Viramundo around Minas Gerais States. While fitting nowhere (seen as crazy, stupid or inconvenient, despite his good intentions), he goes and amazes everywhere (from seminary to asylum and the army). It is as if Charlie the Trump ate cheese bread and dulce de leche (iconic dishes from Minas Gerais).

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Viramundo is a sympathetic guy, perhaps insane, perhaps a genius, who decides to leave his tiny hometown and turn the world upside down.

Débora Bloch, Regina Casé, Luiz Fernando Guimarães, Osmar Prado, and Diogo Vilela in O Grande Mentecapto (1989)

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Débora Bloch and Diogo Vilela in O Grande Mentecapto (1989)

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Osmar Prado and Diogo Vilela in O Grande Mentecapto (1989)

Luiz Fernando Guimarães, Osmar Prado, and Diogo Vilela in O Grande Mentecapto (1989)

Diogo Vilela in O Grande Mentecapto (1989)

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