They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)

Original title

Eles Não Usam Black-Tie

Directed by

Leon Hirszman

Genre

drama film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

2h

Rated

14

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 73 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A working class family in São Paulo faces conflict when a son's involvement in a union strike clashes with his father's traditional values. The film follows their personal and political struggles.

socially consciousgroundedemotionalpersonalfamily-drivenrealisticearnestpolitical

What happens

Eles Não Usam Black-tie (internationally released as They Don't Wear Black Tie) is a 1981 Brazilian drama film directed by Leon Hirszman, based on Gianfrancesco Guarnieri's play of the same name. In 2015, the Brazilian Film Critics Association aka Abraccine voted They Don't Wear Black Tie the 14th greatest Brazilian film of all time, in its list of the 100 best Brazilian films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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