Marighella

Marighella

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


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2h 35m 2021 HD

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.


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