Araguaya - A Conspiração do Silêncio (2004)

Release Date: 2004-06-29
Runtime: 1h 45min
Production Country: Brazil
Director: Ronaldo Duque

Film about an important episode in Brazilian History: the Araguaya guerrilla. In the 1970s, when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, some left-wing militants and peasants took arms against the Army, in the Amazon. Right in the middle of the conflict, there stood a French priest who had come to the region in the 1960s, and got involved in the events leading to the rebellion.