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2004 | Color | 141 min

Based on the life of Olga Benario, a German- Jewish activist and political prisoner who married the leader of Brazil?s communist revolution, Luiz Carlos Prestes. In pre-war Germany, Olga flees to Moscow. She then escorts Luiz Carlos Prestes back to Brazil in 1935, where he is to lead the revolution. Along the way they fall in love. Olga is arrested and sent to Nazi Germany where she is interned in a concentration camp


Country: Brasil
Direction: Monjardimrita Buzzar; Jayme
Production: Buzzar; Rita, Wainer; Bruno, Beauchamp; Marc
Photography: Della Ros; Ricardo
Sound: Saldanha; Jorge
Music: Vianna; Marcus
Cast:Morgado; Camila, Ciocler; Caco, Montenegro; Fernanda, Melo; Luis, Giardini; Eliane, Martini; Jandira, Lima; Mariana, Jesion; Renata, Schunemann; Werner, Weber; Guilherme
Participation year at FICM: 2007

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