A Fantástica Fábrica de Golpes

One of the most important documentaries that has bren produced to highlight a coup against a fragile Brazilian democracy.

It is impossible to deny history and the facts. Essential watch this courageous documentary to understand the democracy in Brazil and beyound.

The documentary reveals how the media and right-wing party deposed the first woman elected in Brazil, Dilma Rouseff (Labours party) during her second presidential term.

The coup d'état took place six years ago, but it is clearly how the coup still reflects in all sections on Brazilian society today.

Again: Powerful. Epic documentary. Must watch it.

Although the coup d'état is an event that took place six years ago, its effects are still deeply felt by Brazilian democracy. However, the very narrative about the event is still a subject of hermeneutical dispute in the Brazilian public sphere and this prevents the correct diagnosis of its institutional consequences. Just as the memory of the military dictatorship's crimes is very little remembered or discussed, which allows its ills to return as unexorcised ghosts, most of Brazilian society does not even realize that it lost an important part of its own sovereignty with a coup that overthrew the former President Dilma Rousseff. As the news outlets and the justice system were associated in this campaign of institutional destabilization, as they were in the 1964 coup, they will hardly recognize the crime even with all their fingerprints on the scene. That's why the film by Victor Fraga and Valnei Nunes plays a role not only as a work of creation, but also as a historical document for the country's memory.

The documentary The Coup d'Etat Factory explains the recent political history in Brazil, comparing it with its violent and turbulent XX century events.

More than a collection of testimonials, directors Victor Fraga and Valnei Nunes sew a thread of surreal facts in Brazilian current affairs into a patchwork. It's difficult to explain the unexplainable. But this documentary succeeds in chasing the truth -- the playful truth that likes to hide itself.

Brazil's complexities and plurality do not show off only in music, arts and sports, but they reveal themselves in daily life. Hence it is quite complicated to understand how Dilma was impeached, why Lula was imprisioned and why the extreme right-wing "suddenly" became so powerful.

The power of TV Globo is as strong as Fox News in the United States, with the difference that there is no other TV channel as broadly watched as TV Globo. 29% of Brazilians are functional illiterate. The majority of the population watch TV Globo newshows without comparing it without any other medium. But most recently, Brazilians have been infuenced by fake news to a degree that it is difficult to verify what is really true.

If The Capture (BBC show) is still fictional, and deepfakes of politicians were not yet detected in British politics, in the Coup d'Etat Factory the Fake is alive. It is devouring Brazilian people.

A copy of The Coup d'Etat Factory should be sent to cinemateques all over the world. It is crucial that Brazilian history ceases to be erased.

The effects of such a dominant.

Being Brazilian, I'm well aware of how our mainstream press work, and even though, those tactics are not only restricted to the Brazilian press, you only need to go back a few years and see how the British press, which is supposed to be impartial and a public service, clearly supported one candidate to the detriment of the other. But not wanting to digress too far, A Fantástica Fábrica de Golpes, is a smart and well researched documentary, showing the inner works of Brazilian press and their disregard for fairness, truth and democracy. A must see to all those who care for those principles and even those who don't.

A must-see film to understand Brazilian society and its contradictions. The film is engaging and depicts, with impressive accuracy, the dangerous dark clouds of fascism coming not only in Brazil but all over the world.

Directors Victor Fraga and Valnei Nunes have done a great job exposing the media's influence on political upheaval in Brazil. Firstly they focus on the role of TV Globo, the most important TV channel in Brazil, owned by the late media mogul Roberto Marinho and his family, playing in supporting and influencing the coup d'état of 1964 that led to the overthrow of President João Goulart by members of the Brazilian Armed Forces, with the backing of the United States government. They expand this disturbing narrative to encompass the more recent coup d'état which led to the overthrow of Lula's political successor Dilma Rouseff in 2006.