Four Days in September
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| Four Days in September (O Que É Isso, Companheiro?) |
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| Directed by | Bruno Barreto |
| Produced by | Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto |
| Written by | Fernando Gabeira (novel) Leopoldo Serran |
| Starring | Alan Arkin Pedro Cardoso Fernanda Torres Luiz Fernando Guimarães Cláudia Abreu Selton Mello Fernanda Montenegro Milton Gonçalves Othon Bastos |
| Music by | Chico Buarque de Hollanda Stewart Copeland Pietro Mascagni |
| Distributed by | Miramax (US) / Columbia TriStar |
| Release date(s) | 19 April 1997 (Brazil) 30 January 1998 (U.S.) |
| Running time | 110 min |
| Language | Portuguese / English |
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Four Days in September (Original title in Portuguese: O Que É Isso, Companheiro?) is a 1997 Brazilian thriller film directed by Bruno Barreto and produced by his parents Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto. The film is based on the 1979 memoir "O Que É Isso Companheiro?" (in English: "What's This, Comrade?") written by politician Fernando Gabeira. Internationally, the movie was nominated for many awards, including the Best Foreign Language Film by the Academy Awards.
[edit] Plot
The film tells the true story of the abduction of the American ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick in 1969 by the MR-8 group, in which Mr. Gabeira and his friends participated.
[edit] Characters
The main characters include:
- Fernando Gabeira (Pedro Cardoso) - one of the student kidnappers.
- Maria (Fernanda Torres) - the beautiful, but tough guerrilla leader that falls in love with Fernando.
- Charles Burke Elbrick (Alan Arkin) - the American ambassador that forms a kind of friendship with Fernando.
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