The president-elect died before taking office. The hospital killed him. Brazil still doesn't know why.
The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.
Acting
Othon Bastos makes a dying man impossibly dignified.
Direction
Rezende turns a hospital room into a political pressure cooker.
Production
1985 Brazil recreated with suffocating period detail.
Director
Sérgio Rezende
Othon Bastos
Tancredo Neves
Esther Góes
Risoleta
Leonardo Medeiros
Dr. Pinheiro Rocha
Paulo Betti
Dr. Pinotti
Otávio Müller
Dr. Renault
Emílio Dantas
Britto
Eucir de Souza
Dr. Freire
Leonardo Franco
Dr. Gilberto Assis
Wagner Santisteban
Dr. Marcos Peres
Emiliano Queiroz
Dr. Batista Rezende
Gustavo Machado
Dr. Eloy
Luciana Braga
Inês Maria
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Othon Bastos spent weeks studying Tancredo's actual hospital records to match his physical decline beat-for-beat.
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