A Black magic healer, a forbidden love, and Brazil's most chaotic romantic in one steamy bromance-to-romance epic.
Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador.
Acting
Grande Otelo's Jubiabá is magnetic, tender, spiritually commanding.
Direction
Nelson Pereira dos Santos captures Bahia's sensual contradictions.
Production
Lush Salvador streets, macumba rituals, visceral period texture.
Director
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Grande Otelo was Brazil's most celebrated Black actor; this was his final major role, making Jubiabá's death scene unbearably meta.
Nelson Pereira dos Santos, pioneer of Cinema Novo, struggled to fund this—Hollywood wanted to whitewash the romance entirely.
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