Imagens
It confronts the regime’s brutality nd the silence imposed on anyone who spoke out against it.
1972 · 1h 10m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Luiz Rosemberg Filho
Overview
Without any sounds, dialogues and with unknown actors, the images are the focus of this film. Images that want to awake, to question determinant moments, state of a system's languages, the morality of deaths, the immobility, the silence, among other subjects. Shot at the height of the Brazilian military dictatorship, it is an affront to the most diverse types of repression in that period.
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