How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
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| Directed by | Nelson Pereira dos Santos |
| Produced by | Luiz Carlos Barreto, K.M. Eckstein, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, César Thedim |
| Written by | Humberto Mauro (Tupi dialogues) and Nelson Pereira dos Santos |
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Arduíno Colassanti Ana Maria Magalhães Eduardo Imbassahy Filho Manfredo Colassanti José Kléber Gabriel Archanjo |
| Music by | Guilherme Magalhães Vaz and José Rodrix |
| Cinematography | Dib Lufti |
| Edited by | Carlos Alberto Camuyrano |
| Distributed by | Condor Filmes |
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84 minutes |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese, Tupi, French |
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Portuguese: Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês) is a Brazilian black comedy directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos released in 1971.
Almost all of the dialogue in the film was written in the Tupi language. The actors and actresses who portrayed the Tupinambas wore historically correct attire resulting in a considerable amount of historically correct nudity and semi-nudity in many scenes.
The location for the entire film was the Bay of Ilha Grande, which has 365 islands and whose shores comprise the Angra dos Reis and Parati municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
In 1594 Brazil rival French and Portuguese settlers are utilizing the indigenous people as allies in their struggle to establish control. The Tupinambás, who live in the Guanabara Bay area, are allied with the French, while the Tupiniquins are allied with the Portuguese.
A Frenchman who has been captured by the Portuguese is then captured by the Tupinambás after they attack and kill a group of Portuguese. He tries to convince his captors by speaking in French (reciting the poem by Étienne Jodelle found in André Thévet's Singularities of France Antarctique) but the Tupinambás don't believe that the Frenchman was a prisoner of the Portuguese they have killed, and the Chief thinks he is Portuguese because "No Frenchman would shoot at the Tupinambá." The tribe's shaman predicted they would find a strong Portuguese man to cannibalize as revenge for the chief's brother being killed by a Portuguese musket ball. Now they have one.
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