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After the huge critical and box-office acclaim of the allegoric, iconoclast political satire “Macunaíma” (1969), director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade raised funds in Brazil and Italy (through RAI-TV) to make “Os Inconfidentes”, a politically and artistically ambitious (though low budget) film that tries to reassess historically the most important political event in colonial Brazil – the ill-fated plotting of a coup d’état by a group of Brazilian military officers, poets and intellectuals aiming to overthrow the Portuguese Crown and establish a Brazilian Independent Republic in 1789, inspired by the success of the U.S. independence.

The conspiracy failed due to multiple factors, perhaps most importantly the lack of proper organization, funds and articulation with multiple segments of society. Once the coup plans were discovered, some of the conspirators (“inconfidentes”) were imprisoned and tortured, and one of them committed suicide in jail. Most of them were exiled, but one was sentenced to death: the young dentist and low-rank military officer Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, aka “Tiradentes”, was chosen as the scapegoat. In 1792, he was hanged, beheaded, his body torn apart by four horses (one for each arm and leg) pulling out in different directions, and his head publicly displayed as cautionary warning for future tentative conspirators. One century later, Tiradentes became Brazil’s highest martyr and hero, of course, when Independence was finally declared in 1889.

Andrade re-stages (with liberties) the actual events in some of the historical locations (the beautifully preserved villages of Ouro Preto and Mariana and their amazing 18th century architecture), aiming at a contemporary political meaning: in 1972 Brazil was living the darkest years of its violent military regime (1964-1985), with arbitrary imprisonment, torture and/or assassination of hundreds of political activists, not unlike what had happened in 1789. But Andrade wisely avoids naive revolutionary propaganda – “Os Inconfidentes” is rather an alert against hurried, hot-headed, improvisational actions by small activist groups who, though speaking in the name of the “oppressed majority”, are perhaps guided by class or political esprit de corps, or utopian, unrealistic ideals (Glauber Rocha had already called attention to these issues in his 1967 “Terra em Transe”). “Os Inconfidentes” is also about the role of artists and intellectuals in the political status quo of a nation, especially in the fight against the then widespread military regimes in Latin America.

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade - (1972) The Conspirators.mkv

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Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

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In a small city of Brazil, a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho, but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking and he takes all of her money to gamble. After Vadinho dies, Flor marries Tedoror, the owner of a drugstore. Flor is happy with her new husband but misses the love life with her previous husband. When one day the ghost of Vadhino comes back to peruse her.

Extra: Making of (with soft English subs)

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Language:Portuguese
Subtitles:English

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The bitch is called Maria and she is a sweet child. She has no father and does not like her mother. She has a boyfriend who is a bandit who would like to change his class.

There are two more bandits: a very tall singer and a guy from Oporto who is a very short and a full of life’s experiences. Neither of these two do much thinking, one even less than the other.

The bitch’s mother is a rich lady who has a lover who is not a handsome boy. All this ends badly because the sweet child plus the boyfriend who wants to change class, with the help of the lover who is a handsome boy, the rich lady who is the mother of the bitch, and against the advice of the guy from Oporto who does not do much thinking, kill a theatre caretaker who didn’t know he was doing there.

However, in the middle of this story the husband of Maria’s mother appears and things get really serious.

Extras (all with English subtitles)

Photos 48”
Trailer 2’25”
TV Trailer 45”
VideoClip 3’21”

1.56GB | 1h 40mn | 1024×576 | mkv

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Language:Portuguese
Subtitles:English,French

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