The documentary about the brutal murder of a young promise of acting has already premiered on HBO Max

The crime of the young actress Daniella Pérez shocked Brazilian society. (HBO Max)

Everything seemed to be going smoothly in the fledgling career of Daniella Perez. She had finally achieved a central role in a soap opera that was scripted by her own mother, the great Gloria Perez (author of the history of The clone). The fiction was called of body and soul, and the young woman played Yasmin. Her role was going through a romantic and love story with another young actor who was taking her first steps, Guilherme of Padua. Daniella never imagined that it would be this man together with his wife who would take her life.

On the night of December 28, 1992, she was found dead with 18 stab wounds and the news became something that forever shocked Brazilian society. Her body was found in a field in the Barra de Tijuca area of ​​Rio de Janeiro, where they allegedly abandoned her after murdering her. This brutal crime had such an impact that even the president of Brazil at the time, Fernando Collor de MelloHe said a few words of condolences on television.

Daniella Pérez was considered one of the great promises in Brazilian soap operas.  (HBO Max)
Daniella Pérez was considered one of the great promises in Brazilian soap operas. (HBO Max)

Now comes this story to HBO Max which will be narrated in a documentary throughout five episodes (the first two are already available and the rest will arrive on the streaming platform next Thursday, July 28). With the name of Brutal pact: the murder of Daniella Pérez, this tremendous story has the testimonies of the young woman’s family, journalists and people linked to the investigation and trial. Directed by Tatiana Isa Y Guto Barwho also wrote the script, the production of MaxOriginal reconstructs all the details and the trial of the case that impacted Brazil in the 1990s.

Daniella’s crime, who was just 22 years old at the time of her murder, was clearly premeditated by both Guilherme of Padua as for his wife, Paula Thomas.

The screenwriter and producer Gloria Pérez, Daniella's mother, is part of the documentary.  (HBO Max)
The screenwriter and producer Gloria Pérez, Daniella’s mother, is part of the documentary. (HBO Max)

Thirty years have passed since Daniella’s death and unfortunately the culprits are free. In the documentary, Gloria shows previously unpublished reports and revisits the case with authorities in the process, relatives and close friends of her daughter, who recall the artist’s career and her memories of the tragedy. Among them, Claudia Raia, Fábio Assumpção, Maurício Mattar, Cristiana Oliveira Y eri johnson.

Framed in the true crime, genre that has prevailed the most in recent times on platforms, Brutal pact: the murder of Daniella Pérez It points to the importance of memory, the impact of what a femicide is (at that time it was classified as a crime of passion), and the need that we as a society have to put this issue that crosses all areas on the front page.

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The documentary about the brutal murder of a young promise of acting has already premiered on HBO Max