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The Rogue's Trial (TV Series)
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Matheus Nachtergaele
João Grilo
4 eps
Selton Mello
Chicó
4 eps
Humberto Martins
Coronel Ernani
4 eps
Enrique Díaz
Joaquim Brejeiro (Cabra)
4 eps
Fernanda Montenegro
Compadecida (uncredited)
1 eps
Rogério Cardoso
Padre João (uncredited)
1 eps
Denise Fraga
Dora (uncredited)
1 eps
Diogo Vilela
Eurico (uncredited)
1 eps
Luís Melo
Diabo (uncredited)
1 eps
Maurício Gonçalves
Jesus (uncredited)
1 eps
Marco Nanini
Severino de Aracaju (uncredited)
1 eps
Lima Duarte
Bispo (uncredited)
1 eps
Luisa Arraes
Beata da Igreja
1 eps
Taís Araújo
Compadecida
1 eps
Virginia Cavendish
Rosinha
3 eps
Fabiula Nascimento
Clarabela Catacão
3 eps
Luis Miranda
Antônio do Amor
3 eps
Eduardo Sterblitch
Arlindo
3 eps
Juliano Cazarré
Omar
2 eps
Luellem de Castro
Iracema
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Rogue's Trial (TV Series) actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Rogue's Trial (TV Series) reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city. The four-chapter miniseries original version of O Auto da Compadecida 2.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Pedro Buarque de HollandaProducer
- Tania PachecoExecutive Producer
- Edson PimentelProducer
- Claudio PeraltaExecutive Producer
- Sandro RodriguesProducer
- Carolina JaborExecutive Producer
Direction
- Flávia LacerdaDirector
- Guel ArraesDirector
Cinematography
- Gustavo HadbaDirector of Photography
Music
- João FalcãoOriginal Music Composer
- Ricco VianaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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