Brazil's 1967 military coup through ordinary eyes — no narrator, no safety net.
Documentary about middle-class people in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1960s, when Brazil was going through a hard period in its history, with the military coup and the following dictatorship. Interviews with people in the street disclose their fears, aspirations and political alienation.
Direction
Jabor's invisible hand — subjects forget the camera exists.
Editing
Brutal juxtapositions between wealthy denial and working-class clarity.
Director
Arnaldo Jabor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Cinema Novo, Brazil's radical film movement that treated cameras as weapons against dictatorship.
Jabor was arrested multiple times; this film was banned, then smuggled to Cannes where it embarrassed the regime.
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