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: Coutinh...

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