Abstract
This project intends to study the relation between Brazilian cinema and literature from the filmmaker Paulo César Saraceni's (1933-2012) reading of the work of the writer Lucio Cardoso (1913-1968). The corpus to be analyzed in the research includes the films Porto das caixas (1962), A casa assassinada (1972) and O viajante (1999), the so-called "Trilogy of the passion". The films are resu…