Four Days in September (1997)
- Original title
- O Que é Isso, Companheiro?
- Directed by
- Bruno Barreto
- Genre
- drama film, action film, thriller film, historical film
- Country
- Brazil, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 140 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In 1969 Brazil, leftist activists kidnap the American ambassador to protest the military dictatorship. The film follows the tense negotiations and the captors' internal conflicts as they hold him for four days.
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What happens
Four Days in September (Portuguese: O Que É Isso, Companheiro?, lit. 'What Is This, Comrade?') is a 1997 Brazilian thriller film directed by Bruno Barreto and produced by his parents Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto. It is a dramatized version of the 1969 kidnapping of the United States Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by members of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8) and Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN). It was nominated as Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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