In Popular Culture
In 2000, Alves dos Reis life was depicted in a 50-episode TV series written by the former Polícia Judiciária investigator Francisco Moita Flores, with the full title Alves dos Reis, Um Seu Criado ("Alves dos Reis, Your Servant") and broadcast by RTP1.
The fraud has been the subject of episode "Duplikát" of Czechoslovakia-West Germany TV series Dobrodružství kriminalistiky ("Adventure of Criminalistics"). Reis has been portrayed by Jan Teplý.
The fraud has been also the subject of the 1974 Italy TV mini series Accadde a Lisbona (It happened in Lisbona).
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