History of Brazil

The film, created in exile from 1971 to 1973 between Cuba and Rome, is considered a "semi-finished" work by Glauber Rocha. It has a certain pedagogical character and seeks, through dialectical editing, to conduct a critical review of colonization, class struggle, messianism, and the establishment of populist governments in the Third World. There is a chronology in the events presented, which, supported by extensive iconography (films, engravings, photos, etc.), create "free" associations that allow the viewer a "polyphonic" view of the "History of Brazil."

Directed by Glauber Rocha

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Cast

Jésus Histon

Self - Narrator

Emilio Garrastazu Médici

Self (archive)

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco

Self (archive)

João Goulart

Self (archive)

Jânio Quadros

Self (archive)

Juscelino Kubitschek

Self (archive)

Getúlio Vargas

Self (archive)

Fidel Castro

Self (archive)

Che Guevara

Self (archive)

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive)

Jirges Ristum

Richard Nixon

Self (archive)

Arthur da Costa e Silva

Self (archive)

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