

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
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Othon Bastos spent weeks studying Tancredo's actual hospital records to match his physical decline beat-for-beat.