Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Fernando Morais’s Olga translated for the screen: a revolutionary in Rio?

2009; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

1982-0836

Miranda Shaw,

Cuban History and Society

A comparison with the eponymous novel by Fernando Morais (1985), upon which the film Olga (Jayme Monjardim, 2004) is based, illustrates how its reliance on the production values of the telenovela means it falls into the trap that the book avoids: that of representing the communist political figure of Olga Benario as unable to balance her personal and political lives.