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was in a point...

that Costa e Silva,

pressed by the fascist sectors...

was forced to approve

the Institutional Act number 5.

This act closed Congress...

and granted dictatorial rights

to the President of the Republic...

made political crimes

distinct of civil crimes...

nullified habeas-corpus...

solidified dictatorship

and completely revoked...

the republican Constitution.

The Argentine newspapers

said today...

...and some would even

show cover stories...

that the big ones would...

the big ones are Brazil...

Living in the wild,

using guerrilla tactics...

facing the most famous

agrarian organizations...

like Cabeleira, Antonio Silvino...

Captain Lamarca leaves

Vanguarda Popular Revolucionria...

joins Movimento Revolucionrio

8 de 0utubro...

tries to install

a peasant resistance...

History moved on,

and it has to have a meeting point.

And with a critical position.

Because whoever made

self-criticism during militarism...

gained the right to maintain

his criticism.

- And to maintain his positions.

- And to maintain his positions.

Because repressin was brutal,

and in fact constituted...

the first figures...

the first movements

of a revolution.

I mean, in fact, repressin

acted to destroy...

repressin, getting to the

foundation of the vanguards.

Because I was born... I was born

more than 60 years ago...

IF Y0U WANT, C0ME N0W

and since I was born...

THR0UGH THE PATH 0F ILLUSl0N

I've heard about the agrarian reform...

drought and hunger in the Northeast.

So they had, at least,

60 years to solve it...

and so far they haven't done it.

So that's what we want.

They call us communists...

but we are not communists,

we are workers...

we are Brazilian workers.

Glauber immediately

wanted to prepare...

a film for which he had...

great passin:

It was his visin of Brazil

and its history...

but in a way to focus

on the contemporary period...

and the possible solutions.

I started to work with him in

When I got to the editing room...

I noticed there was

a huge amount...

of material, of archives...

photo-animations, montages...

all kinds of film.

Because he really had very little

material about Brazil.

He had to reconstruct a lot from

photos, papers and documents.

I was rounded by boxes of films.

So I asked him how we would start.

Glauber got a small matchbox...

and sat right behind me,

doing like this...

He was playing samba behind me.

And he also sang.

I believe they were songs...

Well, since I didn't know

any of them...

I imagined they were songs...

that had something to

do with the film and inspired him.

But I thought that was

very funny, because...

I was waiting for him

to tell me what to do.

At a certain point...

I had edited an animation

which already had...

some coherence,

I was able to do that...

but when I was about

to start something else...

I asked, "And now,

what should we do?"

He said, "Whatever you want".

And I said, "No...

what do you mean,

whatever I want?

We're working on the history

of Brazil, but I don't know it.

You have to help me". He said,

"No, the history of Brazil...

does not exist. We're gonna

write it now, you and me".

What happens is that

the country is split in two.

There is a part that,

without obstacles...

in social conflicts...

promotes the economical

development of the country...

a superficial development,

but a growing one.

And there's Nazism,

the nazi repressin.

Because it was very hard

for Brazilians...

during the dictatorship and everybody

was running away from that.

And when I think that

he would have...

other engagements,

political engagements, maybe.

Because in those days...

I remember Brazilians

who passed by here...

at ICAIC, and were

never seen again.

That is...

I guess some of them

must have been killed...

when trying to go back to Brazil.

Glauber, one last question...

about...

your opinion about the

revolutionary fight in Brazil.

Well, I know Brazil...

and today I am, definitely...

with all my time and my life...

devoted to the revolutionary

fight in Brazil.

He used to sit for hours

at this typewriter.

It was a very difficult moment

for Cuba.

There were no shops,

not even ink for the typewriter.

When he ran out of it,

he had to ask one at ICAIC.

I mean, the embargo is real,

imperialism is real. It does exist.

No human being, no Cuban...

the ones who are there

or the ones who are here...

nobody can deny that

this country is under an embargo.

It's a problematic country for

anyone who wants to accomplish...

any project or idea.

And Glauber lived among us,

he lived like us...

WITH0UT END EVERY 100,000

N0RTHEASTERNERS he ate what we ate.

9,000 PER M0NTH AND

A FEW HUNDRED PER DAY

70 PERCENT 0F THEM

G0 T0 THE C0UNTRYSIDE

Glauber always had

a story to tell.

And usually it had nothing to do

with cinema. Almost always...

it had to do with Brazilian culture.

I remember one day...

he stepped inside the house and said,

"I'm going to tell the history of Brazil.

How Brazil came to be.

Give me paper and pencil".

It was Nancy, me and

I don't remember who else.

We gave him paper and pencil...

and he started to draw

the map of Brazil and tell us...

how Brazil was formed.

How the country developed...

with the immigrants...

with all the ethnical variety...

all the ethnical groups, and went back

even further in the history of Brazil.

There's the clergy,

the communist party...

the workers associations,

you got it?

There's umbanda,

there's quimbanda...

there's the organizations, the rest

of the peasants organizations...

got it? There's the progressive

sectors of the Army...

there's a radical,

liberal middle class...

which is still positivist,

or romantic, or lyric.

There are several tendencies.

There are the several

political organizations...

which claim to be

Marxist-Leninist.

Glauber saw it as a big folly.

The history of Brazil...

was a history of folly,

which had a lot to do...

with the folly of our

Latin American countries.

- Popular unity!

- The revolutions...

in Latin America,

like in Uruguay...

in Chile and in Peru, all the

Latin America processes...

claiming to be left-wing...

the revolutionary unity

of the continent...

are very important today for

our fight, because the liberation...

of Brazil will be essential for

the destiny of Latin America.

The Air Force bombarded

the towers...

Latin America hasn't yet

solved a good part...

of its institutional problems,

the ones of political formation.

I think it's important,

I honestly do...

the validity...

of a thinking that

is slightly mad...

very passionate...

of a thinking and a feeling

with which I believed...

piously in Brazil,

above all things.

I piously believed in Latin America

and in the Third Worid...

committing themselves with attitudes

and not only with words:

the liberation fights

and the guerrilla movements...

existing in Latin America.

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