Prime Video’s Tremembé Debuts, Blending Reportage and Dramatization of Brazil’s ‘Famous Prison’

Overview

• All five episodes are now streaming on Prime Video, adapting Campbell’s 2020–2021 book-reportages on Suzane von Richthofen and Elize Matsunaga.
• The production recreates Suzane’s 2015 TV interview with Gugu Liberato and depicts an alleged R$120,000 payment plus three sewing machines as described in Campbell’s reporting, which the new coverage does not independently verify.
• Prime Video’s legal group and producer Paranoid reviewed the scripts to minimize litigation and privacy risks in light of past lawsuits involving subjects portrayed.
• Cast research drew on inquests, archival material, author-provided documents, and insight from a former Tremembé inmate who consulted on portrayals.
• Coverage notes current statuses of figures depicted, with conditional or open regimes for Suzane, the Cravinhos brothers, Anna Carolina Jatobá, Alexandre Nardoni, and Elize Matsunaga, while Roger Abdelmassih remains imprisoned in Tremembé.