History of Brazil

Story

Synopsis

The film, created in exile from 1971 to 1973 between Cuba and Rome, is considered a "semi-finished" work by Glauber Rocha. It has a certain pedagogical character and seeks, through dialectical editing, to conduct a critical review of colonization, class struggle, messianism, and the establishment of populist governments in the Third World. There is a chronology in the events presented, which, supported by extensive iconography (films, engravings, photos, etc.), create "free" associations that allow the viewer a "polyphonic" view of the "History of Brazil."

Director

Glauber Rocha

Writers

Glauber Rocha, Marcos Medeiros

Language

Portuguese

Country

Brazil, Cuba, Italy

Release date

1 January 1974

Ensemble

Cast

• Jésus Histon

  Self - Narrator

• Emilio Garrastazu Médici

  Self (archive)

• Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco

  Self (archive)

• 

  João Goulart

  Self (archive)

• Jânio Quadros

  Self (archive)

• 

  Juscelino Kubitschek

  Self (archive)

• 

  Getúlio Vargas

  Self (archive)

• 

  Fidel Castro

  Self (archive)

• 

  Che Guevara

  Self (archive)

• 

  John F. Kennedy

  Self (archive)

• Jirges Ristum

• 

  Richard Nixon

  Self (archive)