Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos
Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos (Antônio Dias, March 25, 1945 - West Berlin, June 1, 1976) was a guerrilla member of the organization Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares – VAR-Palmares – who participated in the armed struggle against the military dictatorship installed in Brazil in 1964. On November 21, 1969, she was imprisoned and brutally tortured, being released in January 1971 and sent to Chile after the swiss ambassador Giovanni Bucher was kidnapped by the armed guerrilla VPR which damanded that political prisoners were set free in exchange for the ambassador's life. She died by suicide in 1976.
O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2
as Self (archive footage)With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and...
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Brazil: A Report on Torture
as HerselfThe filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government...
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It's Not Time to Cry
as SelfThrough the testimony of the victims of the Brazilian dictatorship, and the re-creation of the...
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Quando Chegar o Momento
as HerselfHer name was Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos, but she was called Dora. She was 31 years old,...
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Retratos de Identificação
as uncreditedAmong the many victims of the military dictatorship that raged in Brazil from 1964 to 1985, a...
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Clandestine Soul
as Self - Archive Footage"Clandestine Soul" is a sensory and emotional biography of the Brazilian political activist,...
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