Salve Geral

Time of Fear Portuguese Salve Geral is a 2009 Brazilian thriller film directed and written by Srgio Rezende. It depicts the May 2006 riots perpetuated by the Primeiro Comando da Capital PCC criminal organization in the state of So Paulo. The Ministry of Culture submitted it for consideration of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the 82nd Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The Film won the Crystal Lens Award for Best Feature Film at the 2nd Brazilian Film Festival of London.

Salve Geral lampoons the mass media for generating panic among the population of So Paulo with its sensationalistic coverage of the riot and not revealing the real cause of the revolt, which was the degrading situation of the state prison system.Although Salve Gerals main storyline is fictional, its background story is based on actual events that took place on 2006 Mothers Day. The riots caused the deaths of several people, most of them policemen. On May 11, 2006, the state government, based on information indicating the plans of PCC to perform a series of rebellions in prisons, ordered the simultaneous transfer of 765 dangerous inmates to maximum security prisons in the state. In retaliation, the leaders of the criminal organization commanded from within the prisons, through mobile phones, simultaneous riots and attacks on law enforcement officials. The message was clear a horror party was to be done in each one of the neighborhoods of So Paulo. Salve literally save or hail means attack in the Paulistano crime dialect of Portuguese language. ........

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