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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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