CULTNE - "Quarto de despejo - Carolina Maria de Jesus " - Ruth de Souza

Cultne, with an editing by Filó Filho, rescued audiovisual fragments from the television special "Caso Verdade - Quarto de Despejo - de catadora de papel à escritora famosa" (True Case - From Wastebasket to Famous Writer), aired between March 7 and 11, 1983, on Rede Globo de Televisão. Produced by Walter Avancini, directed by Attílio Riccó, written by Cleston Teixeira, and starring Ruth de Souza, Walter Cruz, and Irede Cardoso. "Case Verdade" was a Brazilian television series aired on Rede Globo from April 26, 1982, to April 18, 1986, with 152 episodes. Each week featured a different story. These stories were based on real events described in letters sent by the audience and selected by Walther Negrão and Eloy Santos to become narratives told on the program. Carolina Maria de Jesus was a Black, Brazilian, poor woman, and a writer. Born in Sacramento, Minas Gerais, in a rural community on March 14, 1914. She studied for two years at a school paid for by a farmer's wife, where she learned to read and write. She migrated to São Paulo and lived in the Canindé favela. Mother of three children from different fathers, she raised them alone scavenging paper on the street. She refused to be dependent on any man. Although she had little education, she learned enough to read books she found in the trash and keep a diary, describing her daily life and how she saw the world around her. Some of these diaries were published as "Quarto de Despejo" (Dump Room), a metaphor created by the writer to refer to the favela in relation to the capital. Although written in the simple and inelegant language of an uneducated person, her diary was translated into 14 languages ​​and became a bestseller. Carolina died on February 13, 1977, in São Paulo. Ruth Pinto de Souza, born in 1921 in Engenho de Dentro, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, is the daughter of Sebastião and Alaíde Pinto de Souza. Soon after her birth, while still very young, she moved to Minas Gerais, where she lived on a farm with her siblings Maria and Antônio. The dream of becoming an actress followed her from early childhood. In one of the most important roles of her career, Ruth de Souza starred in the play "Quarto de Despejo," the namesake of the main book written by Carolina Maria de Jesus. Television entered her life in 1965, during which time she worked for Tupi, Record, and later TV Globo. Her list includes soap operas such as "O Bem Amado" (1973), "Sinhá Moça" (1986), and "O Clone" (2001). Ruth has worked in over 25 plays and 30 soap operas. Honored with the best actress award at the traditional Gramado Film Festival, Ruth de Souza is a living representation of the drive and determination of Black women in Brazil. She's a pioneer, a dramatic diva!