After directing one of Brazil’s most interesting genre works in Globoplay’s highly successful ER procedural “Under Pressure,” renowned multi-hyphenate Andrucha Waddington (“The House of Sand”) is turning his eye to another popular subgenre. In HBO Max’s “Ângela Diniz: Assassinada e Condenada” (“Ângela Diniz: Murdered and Convicted” in literal translation), the director bets on true crime to look at one of the country’s most infamous cases, the murder of a popular socialite in the ’70s at the hands of her boyfriend. See an exclusive image courtesy of Variety above.

“Ângela Diniz: Assassinada e Condenada” is produced by Waddington’s indie powerhouse Conspiração and will land on HBO Max in all territories where the streamer is available on Nov. 13.

The series, based on Rádio Novelo’s “P

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