24.04 @ 21.30 / Cabra Marcado Para Morrer (1984, Eduardo Coutinho)

LINK TO STREAMING (Good all month!): https://www.cinematropical.com/cinema-tropical/daily-recommendation-a-man-maked-for-death-twenty-years-later
* Portuguese, with subtitles in English.

"Named the best Brazilian documentary of all-time by the Brazilian Association of Film Critics, Eduardo Coutinho's Twenty Years Later is a landmark of Latin American cinema, and hailed as one of the greatest metadocumentaries ever made.

“In 1964, Eduardo Coutinho was at work on a film about João Pedro Teixeira, who was murdered by the police as a result of his efforts to organize farm workers in northeast Brazil. The director cast non-actors in the production, including Teixeira’s widow, who plays herself, but shooting was cut short in the wake of the military coup that same year; footage was seized, a number of participants imprisoned. The project was resumed 20 years later, as the country was transitioning to a democracy, but had begun to take a rather different shape: Coutinho incorporated the earlier material as well new interviews with those originally involved and reflections on the injustices of the interval, yielding a prismatically reflexive, genre-defying essay on political commitment and life under dictatorship.” —Film at Lincoln Center