TWENTY YEARS LATER

TWENTY YEARS LATER

    Price: $265.00

    Code: 2017

    Directed by Eduardo Coutinho
    1984, 119 minutes
    Portugese dialogue with English subtitles
    Purchase: $265 Classroom Rental: $150


    In the early Sixties, the Brazilian peasant leader, João Pedro Teixeira, was assasinated by two gunmen hired by local landowners. Teixeira's story was being filmed as a docu-drama when the 1964 military coup prevented the completion of the film. The entire crew was imprisoned and their equipment confiscated. Twenty years later, in a more democratic Brazil, director Eduardo Coutinho recovered his confiscated film and located the murdered peasant's widow and children. Coutinho's interviews with her and other families are interwoven with sequences from the original docu-drama to produce an unusually provocative historical film.

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