I never wrote to Your Highness about the lack that in this land of women with whom men marry and live in the service of Our Lord, separated from the light, sins in which the hour lives send Your Highness many orphans and if there are not many, come from a mixture of them and any white women are so desired acó that any will do the land good and men jacó are separated a little about desmundo a brazilian film based on the book by the novelist Ana Miranda it was produced in 2002 with direction and screenplay by ellenfredou Sabina anzoteg and Ana mulaeft the cast includes Osmar Prado as Colonist Francisco Albuquerque Simone schoolgirl as gold and beautiful Caco ciocle is the new Christian merchant ximeno dias and Débora olivieri is the lady Inês in Brazil from 1570 Portuguese colonists begin a settlement and exploration of the newly taken land here they coexist among the natives, sometimes even having relationships with indigenous women, which ends up bothering the representatives of the Catholic Church. With that, one of the Jesuits writes to the King of Portugal requesting the sending of white and Christian women to marry the settlers and, according to them, to separate them from Sin, some orphans educated in Catholic schools in Europe arrive by ship and among them is the gold and beauty who shows her dissatisfaction with the situation from the beginning , the girls are formally presented to the settlers, each one being designated a specific suitor nonconformist auribela rejects and offends the one who would be destined for her and ends up having to marry Francisco Albuquerque a Portuguese whose are much more isolated than the others and that apparently it was not very good that this by the authorities and local clerics already living with her husband she goes through many situations of suffering when trying unsuccessfully to flee her lands right tomorrow she meets a Chilean trader recently convert who walks throughout the colony and has contact with several people including Travelers who arrive and leave there she then wins the Francisco's confidence that he lets his guard down, facilitating his escape to the slipper house for anyone who asks for help to board a ship back to Europe while hiding in his house the two fall in love and relate intimately but fearing to be discovered by Francisco art in looking for a Spanish ship so that they can board her as soon as possible on the way they are surprised by the Colono and his militia who end up murdering the slipper jumps to nine months later with auribela giving birth and being forced to conform to her luck as a wife and mother of a child that can be as much the result of Francisco's violence as of the only true love he knew the film begins with the narration of a correspondence that requests from Portugal to send white women to marry the settlers This text is a real fragment of the letter of the Jesuit Manuel da Nóbrega who arrived in Brazil in the year 1549 together with the first governor general Tomé de Souza the main mission of the Jesuits s in Brazil would be the catechization of the indigenous people because with that it was expected that these peoples would impose less resistance to the occupation but soon the influence that the institution of the church exerted in the administration of Portugal was transferred to the colony and all matters that related to life of the settlers, including their privacy, would be controlled by the ecclesiastical authorities, it was not uncommon to find among the Portuguese those who had already lived here since the beginning of the discovery, following the indigenous practice of polygamy, however, with the arrival of the Jesuits , this began to be refuted. request to send women who could marry and procreate white children who would be educated Following the precepts of the church the role of women in European society at the time is also one of the main themes of the work they should always live under the care of a man passing from the Hands of the Father those of the husband for young people or children who did not have either of them were fic When under the tutelage of the state, it was not uncommon to send orphans raised and educated in convents to marry the settlers of the lands of the new world after marriage, their main function became that of procreator of white children who would perpetuate the customs .
of Christian society in this place until then considered lawless also owed obedience to their husbands who, as portrayed in the film, could force them without anyone interfering . The context presented in the film The situation for them had worsened from the order of collective expulsion given by the Catholic Kings of Castile Fernando and Isabel many of those expelled went to Portugal where they enjoyed a certain freedom and tolerance, however the union of the Iberian kingdoms with the marriage of Dom Manuel and Isabel de Aragão made that, from the end of the 15th century, this community to be persecuted in the kingdom of Portugal as well, most of them were forced to be baptized in the Catholic religion, being called new Christians and even with the establishment of the Inquisition Courts in Portugal from 1531 onwards, it was not uncommon for those who continued to carry out their Jewish rites as Hidden just like ximeno dias desmundo did is a film that tries to show in a very crude and sometimes even uncomfortable way for the viewer all the relationships that were established in the context of the great navigations and the unbridled search for wealth and power of indigenous enslavement, subjugation of women o power that Christian discourse had to condemn ostracism or death and even the archaic Portuguese that gives rise to Tupi, Nagô and Hebrew in the characters' dialogues make this an important work for those who are interested in better understanding how the formation took place.
