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I had a proper care to certify the real life of the legendary Xica da Silva before I've submitted my review about the fictional offering concerning the former slave Xica, sadly to known that such story took the big screen is pure fantasy and utterly inaccurate focusing those popular imaginary orally told thru many generations each one by appending a bit more and more.

On movie Xica is portraits a pure African roots, otherwise his father actually was a white man, thus she was mullato, also previously when Xica was a teenager girl she had a romance involvement with a doctor whom had a son, just when she finally meets the nobleman from Portuguese crown João Fernandes assigned by crown to rent diamond plowings at Tijuco village due the King's minister distrusted that taxes weren't collected suitably, thus João Fernandes arrives there with full powers to fix this neuralgic matter.

Worst in fact she had fourteen sons, thirteen with João Fernandes, upon this real facts the movie falls apart, depicting her as bad sexual behavior or a hot girl, the best thing that the picture can offer is a funny sketch of an old era at 18th century at countryside, well-draft screenplay over a phony story, many colorful character coming along like as Stepan Nercessian and Rodolfo Arena with sharp lines, as fictional is plenty acceptable, unforgettable utterly inaccurate.

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First watch: 1990 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 7.5.