Raízes do Brasil

Original title: Raízes do Brasil

143 minutes • 2004 • 7.5 Score

Documentary in two parts about Brazilian writer, journalist and sociologist Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. The first part describes how the author used to pass his days with family and friends, while the second offers a historical panorama of the times, including his reaction to Nazism and the years of Vargas’ dictatorship, and the arrival of the modernist movement in Brazil.

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

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