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Passport to Freedom (2021)

Passport to Freedom poster
Genre
drama film
Country
Brazil
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Rated
16
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman working at the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg during World War Two risks her own safety to help Jewish people escape Nazi Germany. The series follows her efforts to issue travel documents to Brazil.

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What happens

Passport to Freedom (Portuguese: Passaporte para Liberdade) is a Brazilian television miniseries produced by Estúdios Globo, Sony Pictures Television, and Floresta. The miniseries is written by Mário Teixeira, with the collaboration of Rachel Anthony. It aired on TV Globo from 20 December 2021 to 30 December 2021, and stars Sophie Charlotte, Rodrigo Lombardi, and Peter Ketnath. The miniseries tells the story of Aracy de Carvalho, an employee of the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg, Germany. It is loosely based on the 2011 book Justa ‒ Aracy de Carvalho e o resgate de judeus: trocando a Alemanha nazista pelo Brasil by historian Mônica Raisa Schpun. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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