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Four Days in September is a brésilien film of genre Drama directed by Bruno Barreto released in USA on 1 october 1997 with Fernanda Torres

Four Days in September (1997)

Four Days in September
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Released in USA 1 october 1997
Length 1h50
Directed by
OriginBresil
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Action,    Historical
Rating73% 3.6986653.6986653.6986653.6986653.698665

Four Days in September (Portuguese: O Que É Isso, Companheiro?) is a 1997 Brazilian thriller film directed by Bruno Barreto and produced by his parents Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto. It is a fictional version of the 1969 kidnapping of the United States Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by members of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8) and Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN).

It was nominated as Best Foreign Language Film at the 1998 Academy Awards.

Synopsis

The film is a fictional version of the dramatic events of the 1969 abduction of the American ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick (played by Alan Arkin) in 1969. Elbrick was taken in Rio de Janeiro by the Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8) with help of Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN). Gabeira (played by Pedro Cardoso and named Paulo in the film) as a student joins the radical movement after the military takeover of the Brazilian government. He and his comrades, led by Andréia, gradually decided to kidnap the ambassador as a protest, and are shown mostly planning and executing the kidnapping. Paulo is portrayed as "the most intelligent and uncertain of the kidnappers.

Actors

Fernanda Torres

(Maria)Luiz Fernando Guimarães
Pedro Cardoso

(Fernando Gabeira / Paulo)Cláudia Abreu

(Clara / Reneé)Alan Arkin

(Charles Burke Elbrick)
And :
Matheus Nachtergaele
Caio Junqueira
Fisher Stevens
Milton Gonçalves
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