

“When a mother's courage defies tyranny, hope is reborn.”
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
Status
Released
Original Language
PT
Budget
$8,000,000
Revenue
$36,361,572

Veroca
Walter Salles and Fernanda Torres Q&A, Hosted by Alexander Payne
Featurette
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.