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Vertige de la chute (2019)

Vertige de la chute poster
Directed by
Vincent Rimbaux, Patrizia Landi
Genre
documentary
Country
France, Brazil
Runtime
1h 24m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Workers at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro fight to keep their jobs during a political and economic crisis in Brazil. The film follows their struggle against government budget cuts and instability.

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What happens

Vertige de la chute (also known as: Ressaca) is a 2018 French-Brazilian documentary directed by Vincent Rimbaux and Patrizia Landi, and produced by Babel Doc and Stéphanie Lebrun. The film addresses the struggle of employees of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro in the midst of the state's economic and political crisis. Stéphanie Lebrun and the production team won an International Emmy Award for it in 2020 in the Arts Programming category. Ressaca was aired on Canal Brasil on May 24, 2021, and is available on the Globoplay streaming platform. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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