Cabra Marcado Para Morrer

A very fine and poignant documentary. Rarely does one see such brutally honest self-criticism in a film. No doubt, one of the best Brazilian documentaries.

This is the best documentary I'd ever seen. Show in a carnal way how the press work to a government, and how the paranoid take care of it, with barbarous consequences. An unique movie, with a dramatic self-history, that is the dramatic self history of a country and all a continent. Art in pure state.

The most interesting take on documentary in the longest time I had watched. Twenty Two Years Later is a film about a group of actors/activist who had happened to have planned to make a film to commemorate a fallen member of a peasant revolt.

With the revolt pretty much fallen into failure, entirety of the original cast had moved on and try to piece together a history of broken dreams. From a mother and her family apart by corruption, a lone wolf who had to face the repercussion of the fight or a a fight undone. In a way the film works as an inversion of what Kiarostami's initial film had strived for

Twenty Years Later is a document of a bitter fight, that still goes on for the marginalized. [4.5/5]

This acclaimed documentary made by Eduardo Coutinho is filled of good intentions also well-done having the respected by the international press and so on, what was meant to be a movie about an deadly ambushed against a rural work's leader João Pedro Teixeira in April 1962 who helped founded a rural syndicate at small village called Sapé in Paraiba state in Brazilian northeast one most poorest place in our country due the extensive drought that ravages such dry place, after that a local enquiry took place finding two policemen as perpetrated of the crime and also the mastermind who was a powerful landowner.

Coutinho had a plan to recount the whole story with all originals rural workers using the João Pedro's widow Elizabeth and their children, just replace João Pedro already dead for an actor, the idea was use the same place where everything come to pass in Sapé, however another clash between both sides ends up in a slaughter, then Eduardo Coutinho moved the whole crew to Galiléia in nearby state Pernambuco, after they barely begun the shooting in April 1964 broke up the military government who overthrew the civil regime.

After that the Paraiba's Army stepped in the rural syndicate and arrested all members including the widow Elizabeth, the filmmaker Coutinho and crew slipped away left behind all shooting equipment even the original screenplay and notes, who recover later, many of syndicate members were hardly tortured by Paraiba's authorities, some have fulfilled eight years in prison, afterwards all policemen were acquitted unanimous and the mastermind got a chair in chambers of deputies after four of them had resigned, even the instigator has been the fourth standby, unbelievable.

Just in 1981 Coutinho starts all over again, nonetheless now as documentary after the amnesty law took affect in 1979 and the opening of democratic rights, he had interviewed all remainders of those era, sadly Coutinho found another scenery, the country changes a lot, the labor law already had reach in those camps, apart the struggles of the rural workers, sadly the whole family of the old widow Elizabeth had paid a high price, all the eight brothers split all around the country, even to Cuba, they stayed adrift moving all time, each one for yourself, today they weren't connected anymore, perhaps a quick appointment if so.

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First watch: 2022 / Source: DVD / How many: 1 / Rating: 8.

Brazil is more than Rio and the rainforest. Sometimes I wish it wasn't, like when I watch this movie. In the early 60s, farm workers in Pernambuco organized themselves against labor exploitaition. Some people tried to make a movie about it. But when the military dictatorship came, they have all been arrested. The movie was banned, people arrested, equipment taken, and the leader of the workers was murdered. In 1985, the original movie crew went back to the place and found the people, interviewing them to find out what happened through all these horror years.