Filmed in the Palacio do Catete, where the real actions took place, which is now a museum. The bed and the gun used in the film by Getulio are the real ones.
Tony Ramos wears a fat-suit to portray the chubby Getúlio.
Getúlio' s player actor, Tony Ramos, was at the time the movie was released hired by a local industrial beef company to be the key man in a sequence of intense media advertisements about the quality of meat and beef of that Company, aka FRIBOI - something like a free ox. Tony Ramos in all those ads used to say you were expected to reject all types of meat or beef, except the FRIBOI meat. Well, more or less like a merchandising of FRIBOI, Getúlio who was fond of barbecues from his home state, rejects the meat he was being served during a lunch in the palace. And, Getúlio - or Tony Ramos - said the beef was very bad, and stop lunching. In the movie session, people laughed and a few ones mentioned loud and clear: "Hy, Getúlio, it is not FRIBOI". A tragic history did not deserve a so ridiculous and avoidable scene like that one.
The last public appearance of Vargas was in the inauguration of a Steel Mill in the state of Minas Gerais, 300 mi northern of Rio due Janeiro, a couple of days before his death. The movie was shot in a Thermal Power Plant in the neighborhood of Rio, inaugurated in 1968, 14 years after Vargas' death. Worse than that is Vargas walking alongside a pipe-rack built and erected in 2005, half century after his death.