Documentary, History
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
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IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 2000
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IMDB 6 | Jan , 2000
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IMDB 9 | Dec , 2021
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IMDB 7 | Dec , 2017
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IMDB 0 | May , 2016
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IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2013
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IMDB 8 | Jan , 1993
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IMDB 6.1 | Jul , 2005
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IMDB 7 | Dec , 2012
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IMDB 6.4 | May , 2018
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IMDB 0 | Apr , 1981
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IMDB 0 | Jul , 2024
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 2012
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IMDB 5 | Dec , 2017
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IMDB 8 | Apr , 2000
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IMDB 8 | May , 2025
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IMDB 0 | Jun , 1986
The Movie Movie shows how the camera, editing techniques, make-up and sound can be used in film and video to deliberately manipulate our perceptions and emotions. Drama, action and slapstick humour are combined in a simple, family-oriented plot. There is no dialogue, but there is an explanatory song. Behind-the-scenes vignettes highlight the message that in a movie everything is not quite as it seems.The Five Obstructions
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2003
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