Movies: Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos

The filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government who were at that point supported by the US government....

With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years....

Among the many victims of the military dictatorship that raged in Brazil from 1964 to 1985, a small group of guerilla fighters – Chael, Roberto, Reinaldo and Dora – got arrested, tortured, some of them killed or forced into exile. Before and after th...

Through the testimony of the victims of the Brazilian dictatorship, and the re-creation of the practices to which they were subjected, the torture suffered by the Brazilian political detainees in their country is denounced. Restored version....

"Clandestine Soul" is a sensory and emotional biography of the Brazilian political activist, Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos....

In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the ...

Her name was Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos, but she was called Dora. She was 31 years old, born and raised in Brazil. On June 1, 1976, she took her own life by throwing herself in front of a subway train in West Berlin....