Cinema
Twenty Years Later
Cabra marcado para morrer
Eduardo Coutinho · 1984
Synopsis
In 1962, landowners in the Nordeste have João Pedro Teixeira, leader of a peasant league, assassinated. With the support of student and popular organisations, a crew undertakes a film about his life, played by the peasants themselves; the military coup of 1964 interrupts the shooting and most of the material is seized. Seventeen years later, the director returns to the locations, shows the recovered footage to those who had filmed it and searches for the widow, Elizabeth Teixeira, who lives under another identity, and her children, scattered by the repression.
Context
The project began in 1962 with student and popular culture movements; first conceived as a reconstruction of the events, it resumed only in 1980, according to AdoroCinema. The film combines the images of 1964 and the investigation of the nineteen-eighties; it was edited by Eduardo Escorel and photographed by Fernando Duarte and Edgar Moura. According to the São Paulo Mostra, the story of the peasant leagues of Galileia and Sapé, and that of João Pedro, come across above all through the words of Elizabeth Teixeira, who recounts her life and the persecution of her family under the dictatorship.
Who it is for
A film of one hundred and nineteen minutes, in colour and in black and white, made of interviews and footage from the interrupted shoot.
Prizes and reception
Grand Prize at Cinéma du réel and the International Critics' Prize at the Berlinale in 1985, and first prize at the Rio festival.
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