16 Mar 2007
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A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.
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Gustavo Dahl Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Louis Marcorelles Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
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