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Mass Grave
João Godoy | Brazil | 1995 | 30 min. | documentary

Brazil's decades of military government, its death squads, and its legacy of torture and "disappearances" have had much less attention from the international community in recent years than have the brutal regimes of some of its neighbors. Mass Grave exposes a startling episode from Brazil's dark past--the story of "disappeared" political prisoners who were buried in an illegal mass grave in a public cemetery in São Paulo in the 1970s. Adopting the POV of the families of the "disappeared," the film unravels the complicated recent political history of Brazil and the curtain of secrecy that surrounds it.

DIRECTOR AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Joćo Godoy
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Flavio Ferreira
MUSIC: Lulu Camargo

New York Premiere, 1996 Human Rights Watch Festival. Distributed by João Godoy, Rua Pensilvania 1219, São Paulo, Brazil, cep 04664-003, Tel: 011-55-11-535-0875 Fax: 011-55-11-5581-0687.

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