The literary adaptations of canonical novels for film provide a unique repository of both identity contents and
socio-cultural observations which can be revisited through the filmic representations. These recreations symbolize
not only a privileged visual interpretation of a nation, but they also allow us to examine how a given society reflects
itself through the fiction. In this sense, the objective of this paper is to reflect upon the Portuguese updated filmic
adaptation of The Crime of Father Amaro (1880) by the canonical author Eça de Queiroz. On one hand, the author
intends to rethink about the Portuguese identity portrayed by the film and, at the same time, the author manages to
observe how the Portuguese society is revealed. On the other hand, the paper aims to analyze the particular process
of the adaptation of The Crime of Father Amaro following a qualitative methodology.
