History of Brazil

Glauber Rocha
1974-01-01


7.2
166 min

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."

Cast

Name Character Team
Jésus Histon Self - Narrator Unowned
Emilio Garrastazu Médici Self (archive) Unowned
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco Self (archive) Unowned
João Goulart Self (archive) Unowned
Jânio Quadros Self (archive) Unowned
Juscelino Kubitschek Self (archive) Unowned
Getúlio Vargas Self (archive) Unowned
Fidel Castro Self (archive) Unowned
Che Guevara Self (archive) Unowned
John F. Kennedy Self (archive) Unowned
Jirges Ristum Unowned
Richard Nixon Self (archive) Unowned
Arthur da Costa e Silva Self (archive) Unowned