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The Conspirators

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Original title

Os Inconfidentes

Year

1972

Running time

100 min.

Country

Brazil

Director

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Screenwriter

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Eduardo Escorel, Tomas Antonio Gonzaga, Cecília Meireles

Cast

Music

Ary Barroso, Marlos Nobre, Agustín Lara

Cinematography

Pedro de Moraes

Producer

Filmes do Serro, Grupo Filmes, Mapa Filmes, Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI)

Genre

Drama | Historical. 18th Century

Synopsis

In 1972, Brazil was in the darkest days of the military dictatorship that had seized power eight years before. Working for Italian television, de Andrade embarked on a re-creation of the Inconfidencia Mineira, the Mineiran Conspiracy, fledgling groups of rebels based in Minas Gerais in the late 18th century who questioned Portuguese colonial authority. The film alternates between scenes of clandestine meetings and later interrogations and even torture a pointed reference to what was happening in Brazil at the time. At the center of these events is Tiradentes, a lower class rebel whose defiance of the authorities at his trial would make him a national symbol. Yet the suffering of Tiradentes allows the better-connected upper-class members of the conspiracy to go largely unpunished, another aspect of the story with uncomfortable relevance in the 70s. The Conspirators is living history in the most exciting sense of the term, a look at the past that clearly becomes a mirror for the present.

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The Conspirators

1972

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade