A Fantástica Fábrica de Golpes

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.

A must-see movie, that reveals how devilishly a government was overthrown in Brazil.

An unmissable film, which reveals how diabolically the government was overthrown in Brazil. With a clear, direct dialogue that is alarming because it unmasks important institutions and public figures. Also, gains strength with a bias of standing applause!

With a realistic approach and with a fundamental guideline for the understanding of history, political events and their impacts and consequences on the lives of many people. A film that marks a story of corruption and revels relentlessly never to happen again: as a cry for help against brainwashing!

This documentary shows how media manipulates the public opinion through what we now call fake new. Victor Braga wrote an extraordinary didactic script. It's one of those documentaries that succeed to point it out ugly sides of power and society with elegance.

He himself is the narrador. His narrative is clean, sharp, ironic, delightful. His regional accent adds an extra charm as he comes from the most lucid region of Brazil, NE. NE didn't fall into any fake new whatsoever about Lula for instance and gave the most votes against fascism at our President election 2022.

Fundamental movie to understand why Brazil has such a fragile democracy.

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.