A Flecha e a Farda

A Flecha e a Farda

85 mins | Documentary | Oct. 11, 2020

Fifty years after it was recorded, the footage of the graduation of the first and only class of the Indigenous Rural Guard reappears. In 1970, eighty indigenous marched, in uniform, in the courtyard of a police station, to the leadership of the military dictatorship. Fifty years later, the film seeks out these guards - their bodies, their stories, their memories. Fractures, silences, what remains and what is lost in violent Brazilian history.

A Flecha e a Farda

85 mins | Documentary | Oct. 11, 2020

A Flecha e a Farda
Fifty years after it was recorded, the footage of the graduation of the first and only class of the Indigenous Rural Guard reappears. In 1970, eighty indigenous marched, in uniform, in the courtyard of a police station, to the leadership of the military dictatorship. Fifty years later, the film seeks out these guards - their bodies, their stories, their memories. Fractures, silences, what remains and what is lost in violent Brazilian history.
Producers
Original title A Flecha e a Farda
Directors Miguel Antunes Ramos
Writers TainĂ¡ Muhringer, Miguel Antunes Ramos, Ernesto de Carvalho

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