Production Companies

O2 Filmes, Globo Filmes, Maria da Fé

Overview

"A searing and energized portrait of one of Brazil’s most divisive historical figures"

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.