Acting

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco

Born 1900-09-20

Acting credits

AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu poster
7.0

Documentary about a political episode during the Brazilian military dictatorship, which resulted in the issue of the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5), abolishing freedom of opinion in Brazil, and marking the transition to the toughest period of violation of human rights in the country. The episode was the Congress Assembly on December 12th, 1968, in which its members denied permission to punish congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, as was the Government's wish.

AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu

2001

No artwork available
NR

Almost 40 years after the end of the Military Dictatorship, Brazil is thinking about how to remember its dictators.

Legacy of Silence: The Remnants of the Military Dictatorship in Porto Alegre

2025

History of Brazil poster
7.2

The film, created in exile from 1971 to 1973 between Cuba and Rome, is considered a "semi-finished" work by Glauber Rocha. It has a certain pedagogical character and seeks, through dialectical editing, to conduct a critical review of colonization, class struggle, messianism, and the establishment of populist governments in the Third World. There is a chronology in the events presented, which, supported by extensive iconography (films, engravings, photos, etc.), create "free" associations that allow the viewer a "polyphonic" view of the "History of Brazil."

History of Brazil

1974

The Day That Lasted 21 Years poster
7.7

Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson original White House tapes, and CIA Top Secret documents reveal how the US government planned to overthrow Brazilian elected president João Goulart.

The Day That Lasted 21 Years

2012

1964: Brazil between weapons and books poster
7.4

We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes.

1964: Brazil between weapons and books

2019