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Caramuru A Inveno do Brasil is a Brazilian romantic comedy film releasedNovember 2001. It is a loose, comedic adaptation of the epic poem Caramuru, written in 1781 by Brazilian friar Santa Rita Duro.

In Europe everything is new for Paraguau, even the fact that people get married, a concept she did not understand. When Paraguau finds out that Diogo is engaged to be married to Isabelle and meets Isabelle, she makes a deal with her. She proposes Isabelle to let her marry Diogo and in exchange she will tell her where there is gold in her native island. Isabelle accepts the proposal and Paraguau marries Diogo. Isabelle later finds out that Paraguau lied to her, she never intended to show her where there is gold. Isabelle gets arrested by the king because she did not marry Diogo according to the agreement made with the kings and Diogo and Paraguau return to the island, which in fact is Terra Brasilis, Brazil. The film has a happy ending, Diogo and Paraguau live happily ever after in Brazil.Based on the 2000 Rede Globos miniseries A Inveno do Brasil, it was shot in Picinguaba beach in Ubatuba, Brazil, and at the Queluz National Palace, Leiria Castle, and Batalha Monastery, all the three later locations in Portugal. Caramuru A Inveno do Brasil was the first Brazilian film to use highdefinition quality HDTV. The transposition process from HDTV to film stock cost R500,000 224,962, and the miniseries itself was done with R2 million 899,848, for a total budget of R2.5 million 1,124,810. ........

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