Elizabeth Teixeira

Portrait of Elizabeth Teixeira and the women who continue her fight. Leader of the Peasant Leagues in Paraíba, she starred in the classic "Cabra Marcado para Morrer" (dir.: Eduardo Coutinho, 1984) and made her mark in the history of the fight for Land reform in Brazil. The documentary is a production of De Olho nos Ruralistas, filmed in July 2023, in João Pessoa and Sapé, when Elizabeth Teixeira had turned 98.

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After an initial meeting in 1964 interrupted by military dictatorship and a new meeting in the early 1980s to end the film "Twenty Years Later", Eduardo Coutinho once again find Elizabeth Teixeira, survivor of peasant struggles.

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Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.

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The documentary presents an overview of Vladimir Carvalho's cinematographic career, from the very beginning, as a co-writer of “Aruanda” (1960), directed by Linduarte Noronha, to the present day. With Vladimir himself as the main narrator and illustrated by scenes from his films, the documentary also features interviews with Gilberto Gil, Orlando Senna, Arnaldo Carillo, Dácia Ibiapina, Fernando Duarte, Sérgio Moriconi, among others.

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Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.

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