"Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil" is a historical and satirical film, released in 1995 and directed by Carla Camurati. It starred Marieta Severo and Marco Nanini.
The film begins in Scotland, where the girl Yolanda hears from her uncle the story of the Spanish infanta Carlota Joaquina de Bourbon, also explaining about the Portuguese monarchy, and the rise of Brazil, as a colony of the Portuguese overseas empire, to the United Kingdom with Portugal, circumstances that led her to be Princess of Brazil.
The death of the king of Portugal D. José I de Bragança, in 1777, and the declaration of insanity of the queen Dona Maria I, in 1792, take his son, then prince D. João de Bragança and his wife, Carlota Joaquina, to the Portuguese royal throne. In 1807, to escape the Napoleonic troops that invaded Portugal, the couple and the court hurriedly moved to Rio de Janeiro, where the royal family and much of the Portuguese nobility lived in exile for 13 years. In the colony, there are increasing disagreements between the arrogant Carlota and the intellectually limited D. João, who after the death of his mother, ceases to be prince-regent and becomes king of Portugal and, later, of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarve