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Viramundo

Viramundo

1965•37m•8.6/10
Documentary

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8.6/10(7)

Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Paulo in a cycle repeated every day. Viramundo's aim was to question why the military coup d'état in Brazil happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society.

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Thomaz Farkas

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PT

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Released

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