The new documentary series “Bateau Mouche: The Wreck of Justice”, Based on a real tragedy, debut on the streaming platform Max, releases his second episode on Tuesday (25). In all, they are Three episodes released every Tuesday at 21h.
Filmed in Rio de Janeiro, production revisits the impact of Sawn Bateau Mouchein 1988, by means of file images and more than 30 exclusive interviews with survivors, relatives of the victims, lawyers, experts and fishermen involved in the rescue. The event resulted in the death of 55 weights, including that of the actress Yara Amaral (“radical beast”, “golden years”).
Production also brings detailed recreations, carried out in the sea and in a projected tank, with 40 meters long, 30 wide and up to 25 deep. In an interview with CNNproject directors revealed details of the recreations of the scenes.
Second Tatianadirector and producer of the documentary, also responsible for “Brutal Pact: The Assassination of Daniella Perez”, Telling the story again supporting themselves in simulations was “very difficult to do.”
“We had a large model that portrayed the tragedy, there were small, medium -sized chairs, it was different perspectives that the camera had to position itself. The director of photography, Gustavo Nasser, was underwater all the time, and there faced rain, wave, all the water, is very complex, to do and that was still well done. First time we did so many underwater things like this, ” Tatiana stressed.
According to Patricio Diaz, senior manager of production of nonfiction content at Warner Bros. Discovery, a dramatization was more necessary than everfor there were not so many files to illustrate what the tragedy was, in fact.
“But it is one thing to recreate time car. Another thing is to recreate wreck in the sea,” he said.
The emotional part of the story was also “painful” and complex to portray.
“Personally is painful, because we are listening to very sad, devastating stories,” said Tatiana. “From the point of view of feeling, of what these families have passed, it’s very hard, you are there interviewing them all and listening to everything, it is painful, it is difficult,” he added.
The filmmaker pointed out, then, that there was a lot of focus of the team in “taking care” of the respondents.
“You have to welcome those people a lot and we played a very welcoming role, they felt safe with us. Our team was very careful and affectionate, all. We understand that they are opening very deep wounds, it is not easy for us to talk, right, what we went through in life and in their case, that have gone through such brutal things, it is even more,” she reported.
“When you sit in front of Boris, for example, who lost your son and wife is devastating to hear. Bernardo’s testimony, who lost his mother, Yara Amaral, is very sad. The whole team cried. ”
Among the unpublished statements of the documentary series are the reports of Fatima Bernardes, Malu Mader and Bernardo Amaral, son of Yara Amaral.
The case. Decades after the tragedy, none of those involved are arrested and only one family received compensation.
Watch the trailer for “Bateau Mouche: The Wreck of Justice”
