Bruno
Barreto's Four Days in September is a retelling
of events of 1969, when the American ambassador to Brazil
was kidnapped by youthful, idealistic "Marxist" guerrillas
seeking to free their comrades from detention and torture
by the dictatorship ruling the country. Though the words of
the ambassador, Charles Burke Elbrick, we learn how a career
diplomat opposed the war in Vietnam as well as military rule
in Brazil and thus shared the views of his captors, who released
him when the government in Rio de Janeiro allowed fifteen
of their comrades to go to freedom in México. The film shows
how Marxists were born because of the excesses of military
rule and carries home the message that the best hope for economic
progress and political stability is the establishment of democratic
rule. The film is based on the book O Que E Isso, Companhiero?
by Fernando Gabeira." MH
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