A world of brave men. People with great courage and spirit of adventure that left their countries and travelled to land owned by hostile indians and filled with wild animals. Their contribution, which vallue we can’t even calculate, allowed Brazil and the other American countries to be integrated in the civilized world represented by the Europe of the Modern Age. When we have an initial look at the first century of colonization in Brazil and in the rest of the countries of America everything seems a bit boring, with just a few realizations and facts. There are, for example, the failure on the division of the land, the instalations of the sugar cane production, the arrival of the African slaves, the French attempts to invade Brazil. Things seems to be tasteless, dull and uninteresting. We forget that there was no trace of the Brazil we know nowadays in the sixteenth century. We can consider that Brazil was virgin land, used by just a few tribes of indians that planted manioc, hunted, fished and lived alike the paradise image described by the bible, with no shame and no sin. When the Europeans arrived here, diferently that we thought they were not bringing the best of their civilization on the deck of their ships. Their men were castaways, traffickers and people that was expelled from Europe as Eduardo Bueno explained in one of his bestselling books about brazilian colonial history. Rude men, as wild as the most feared indian tribes from Brazil. Outlaws very violent that came to America to survive and try to get some money. “Desmundo”, a movie made by director Alain Fresnot, put us in touch with the reality of this sixteenth century Brazil, unknown by many of us. A country literally “rough”, somehow barbaric. So virile and brute that the movie, even though really beautifully made, with a meticulous reproduction of that time and a very talented group of actors, was not well accepted by the spectators. I use to say to my students that cinema glorifies and makes history much better looking than it really was. Princess and kings were not so beautiful and healthy as american and european productions want us to think they were. They had many diseases, didn’t bath everyday, were not prepared to deal with many illness, didn’t brush their teeth very often, had a strong smell coming from their bodies and didn’t live more than 30 years average. Fresnot had enough courage to show the sixteenth century as a period of rustic and coarse people. He took off the maquiage of the movies and created an authentic pearl, a movie that people should watch many times. Another golden goal from brazilian cinema.