At last Brazilian producers decided take it to large screen the story of this notorious and strong psych's physical effects on healing Zé Arigó (Danton Mello) ever had in Brazil, the plot took place in Congonhas do Campo in countryside of state of Minas Gerais.
The movie approaching since his childhood until his death in 1971, unfortunately was put some unaccurate events as actually Zé Arigó had operated the governor Juscelino Kubitischek, however overall the picture is great displaying all developing process to became a powerful psych in healing when embodied by the German Dr. Adolph Fritz, after a hard acceptance to be utterly catholic, henceforth due its healing actives the local priest used to be ashamed him during the cult, afterwards he never returns to the church, not even dead.
Also come out the worst, when he was deeply pursued by the medical association and the church neither, he was took the courthouse for illegal practice of medicine, sadly concealed in the plot when he was amnestied by Kubitscheck, just showing the second trial where he was found guilty, this turn Arigó understand what meaning of the amnesty he turned down the offer, being locked up for seven months, even there he continuous providing healing assistance inside the jail for thousands.
This man was almost illiterate, thus being unable to practice of illegal medicine or even charlatanism that some tried implied him, due he never charged any money for its healing always arguing that who cured those people was the bold Dr. Fritz, great picture sponsored by Paramount Pictures, after showed at theaters it come out on DVD on small scale by Imagem Filmes, going straight to streaming.
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First watch: 2023 / Source: Youtube / How many: 1 / Rating: 8.
The movie approaching since his childhood until his death in 1971, unfortunately was put some unaccurate events as actually Zé Arigó had operated the governor Juscelino Kubitischek, however overall the picture is great displaying all developing process to became a powerful psych in healing when embodied by the German Dr. Adolph Fritz, after a hard acceptance to be utterly catholic, henceforth due its healing actives the local priest used to be ashamed him during the cult, afterwards he never returns to the church, not even dead.
Also come out the worst, when he was deeply pursued by the medical association and the church neither, he was took the courthouse for illegal practice of medicine, sadly concealed in the plot when he was amnestied by Kubitscheck, just showing the second trial where he was found guilty, this turn Arigó understand what meaning of the amnesty he turned down the offer, being locked up for seven months, even there he continuous providing healing assistance inside the jail for thousands.
This man was almost illiterate, thus being unable to practice of illegal medicine or even charlatanism that some tried implied him, due he never charged any money for its healing always arguing that who cured those people was the bold Dr. Fritz, great picture sponsored by Paramount Pictures, after showed at theaters it come out on DVD on small scale by Imagem Filmes, going straight to streaming.
Thanks for reading.
Resume:
First watch: 2023 / Source: Youtube / How many: 1 / Rating: 8.