Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family...
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental...
During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.
In May 1969 at Tres Irmãos Farm, Caruaru, PE: Lourival Batista and Severino Pinto, two singers by profession, meet for a challenge. This film documents some moments of the Cantoria.
Film portrait of Austrian intellectual, journalist and writer Otto Maria Carpeaux, who emigrated to Brazil to flee World Ward II, as his insights on the 1964 Brazilian dictatorship.
