CABRA MARCADO PARA MORRER

“In Brazil, making a film on the murder of a peasant leader is interrupted by the 1964 military coup. Twenty years on, the filmmaker finds Elisabeth Testera, this leader’s wife, and his children. He tries to help her re-accept her past (…). At a moment of change in Brazil, this film helps us to better understand a certain reality in the country over the last twenty years.” (Cinéma du réel Catalogue, 1985).

Eduardo Coutinho died on 2 February 2014; this film won him the Cinéma du réel Grand Prix and was highly acclaimed in Brazil for its exploration and appropriation of the dictatorship years through the singular story of one family. Cabra marcado para morrer also abounds in narrative inventiveness and experimentation in both sound and image.