Em Busca de Iara (nonfiction)
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Em Busca de Iara is a 2013 Brazilian documentary film directed by Flavio Frederico about the guerrilla Iara Iavelberg, a woman who participated in the armed struggle against the dictatorship in Brazil.
With the research of documents, archive footage and interviews, the documentary reconstructs the life of Iara and disassembles the official version, which assigns her death to suicide.
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Nonfiction cross-reference
- Flavio Frederico (nonfiction)
- Iara Iavelberg (nonfiction) - Yara Yavelberg (May 7, 1943 – August 20, 1971) was a Brazilian psychologist and university lecturer, member of the Brazilian resistance movement against the Brazilian military government. She was believed to have committed suicide in Salvador, Bahia in 1971, but a recent autopsy has shown that she has been murdered by security agents.
External links
- Em Busca de Iara @ Wikipedia