Rio de Janeiro, April 18, 1945. Brazil's foreign policy aligns closely with that of the United States and opens a brief period of democratic rule after the end of World War 2. For years, hundreds of people were arrested and tortured by the Vargas regime. But with the external pressure, several political prisoners gain freedom.
Acting
Tony Ramos carries decades of unprocessed pain in every stillness.
Direction
Filho traps you in rooms where freedom feels like another cage.
Director
Daniel Filho
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Brazil's renewed reckoning with military dictatorship archives, the film weaponizes 1945 to whisper about 1964-1985.
Daniel Filho cast himself as the compromised doctor after three actors refused—the role was 'too morally septic'.
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