The Middle Ages in the Perspective of Humor and the Historical Making from the Film Reading

The objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between history and cinema from the film: Monty Phyton "Em Busca do Calice Sagrado" (1975). Our research will give more space to the relationship Cinema and History because we understand cinema as a source for historical research. This way, we believe that a cinematic reading of history reveals many things about the historiographical. The criterion for choosing the film was, first, the fact of being innovative about how to approach the medieval theme, hitherto represented in the film in a more dramatic and serious, secondly, and this proved decisive was the its temporality, the 70s, when the world of human sciences., especially history, underwent a crisis epistemological and Western society lived the cultural revolution. It is from this crisis, which broke paradigms hitherto triumphant, the film becomes one of many possibilities to investigate the history, not by the "truths" that says, or lies that grace, but by putting the historian before the way as he reads the past.