Four Days in September

Four Days in September Portuguese O Que Isso, Companheiro? is a 1997 Brazilian thriller film directed by Bruno Barreto and produced by his parents Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto. It is a fictional version of the 1969 kidnapping of the United States Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by members of Revolutionary Movement 8th October MR8 and Ao Libertadora Nacional ALN.

The film is loosely based on the 1979 memoir O Que Isso Companheiro? in English Whats This, Comrade?, written by politician Fernando Gabeira. In 1969, as a member of Revolutionary Movement 8th October MR8, a student guerrilla group, he participated in the abduction of the United States ambassador to Brazil, negotiating to gain release of leftist political prisoners. MR8 was protesting the recent takeover of Brazil by a military government and seeking the release of political prisoners. But, the military increased its repression of dissent, MR8 and ALN members were tortured by the police, and democracy was not reestablished in Brazil until 1989.Gabeira later became a journalist and politician, elected as congressman from the Green Party and Dilma Roussef, who also took part in the plot, became President of Brazil. ........

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