Marighella (2021)

01/29/2021Drama, History, Action2h 35m
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A searing and energized portrait of one of Brazil’s most divisive historical figures

Overview

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Seu Jorge

    Carlos Marighella

  2. Cast 1

    Bruno Gagliasso

    Lúcio

  3. Cast 1

    Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

    Branco

  4. Cast 1

    Humberto Carrão

    Humberto

  5. Cast 1

    Jorge Paz

    Jorge

  6. Cast 1

    Bella Camero

    Bella

  7. Henrique Vieira

    Frei Henrique

  8. Cast 1

    Ana Paula Bouzas

    Maria

  9. Cast 1

    Guilherme Ferraz

    Guilherme

The film is a free adaptation to fiction of the life of one of the worst communist guerrillas that ever lived in Brazil. It can not be considered a biographical film, much less a documentary, since many situations and scenes were created by the film director, niece of the terrorist, to substantiate the character's "hero" thesis. No matter how clear the interest in humanizing Marighella, trying to turn it into myth, the insistence on trying to associate it simply as an uncle, an ordinary man, is no longer a mere initial curiosity and gradually becomes an exaggeration unnecessary of the direc...

Status Released

Original LanguagePortuguese 

Budget$1,769,789.00

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