Before to be a movie about Spiritism is a real and incredible history about one of the greatest healing mediums - the brazilian Zé Arigó.
Zé Arigó was a famous medium and director of the Jesus Nazareno Spiritist Center, in his hometown, Congonhas do Campo, gaining national and international fame due to the extraordinary spiritual surgeries assisted by the Spirit called Dr. Fritz. Accused of charlatanism, he was convicted and imprisoned, later given amnesty by the then President of the Republic of Brazil, Juscelino Kubitschek, not mentioned on movie; then convicted and imprisoned again, despite strong popular appeal against his arrest. He was a contemporary and friend of Chico Xavier, José Herculano Pires and Divaldo Franco - the most notable spiritist influencers of his time. Herculano was even his biographer and fearless defender of Arigó's moral integrity, in the midst of controversies in the spiritist movement regarding the lesser interest of that medium in the doctrinal issues of Spiritism in relation to the work of healing, although his mediumistic abilities did not result in more serious doubts than evidence of an exuberant college, which was consecrated to the most needy people. Must to be seen!
Zé Arigó was a famous medium and director of the Jesus Nazareno Spiritist Center, in his hometown, Congonhas do Campo, gaining national and international fame due to the extraordinary spiritual surgeries assisted by the Spirit called Dr. Fritz. Accused of charlatanism, he was convicted and imprisoned, later given amnesty by the then President of the Republic of Brazil, Juscelino Kubitschek, not mentioned on movie; then convicted and imprisoned again, despite strong popular appeal against his arrest. He was a contemporary and friend of Chico Xavier, José Herculano Pires and Divaldo Franco - the most notable spiritist influencers of his time. Herculano was even his biographer and fearless defender of Arigó's moral integrity, in the midst of controversies in the spiritist movement regarding the lesser interest of that medium in the doctrinal issues of Spiritism in relation to the work of healing, although his mediumistic abilities did not result in more serious doubts than evidence of an exuberant college, which was consecrated to the most needy people. Must to be seen!