How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman

Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês
Directed byNelson Pereira dos Santos
Written byHumberto Mauro (Tupi dialogues) and Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Produced byLuiz Carlos Barreto, K.M. Eckstein, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, César Thedim
StarringArduíno Colassanti
Ana Maria Magalhães
Eduardo Imbassahy Filho
Manfredo Colassanti
José Kléber
Gabriel Archanjo
CinematographyDib Lutfi
Edited byCarlos Alberto Camuyrano
Music byGuilherme Magalhães Vaz and José Rodrix
Distributed byCondor Filmes
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagesPortuguese, Tupi, French

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Portuguese: Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês) is a Brazilian black comedy directed and co-written by Nelson Pereira dos Santos released in 1971.

Almost all of the dialogue in the film was written in the Tupi language. The actors and actresses who portrayed the Tupinambas wore historically correct attire, resulting in a considerable amount of historically correct nudity and semi-nudity in many scenes.

The location for the entire film was the Bay of Ilha Grande, which has 365 islands and whose shores comprise the Angra dos Reis and Parati municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro.