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In Esdras Baptista's film archives, kept at his home for decades, one can feel the fervor of those who believed in a new tomorrow. Filmed in Brazil in the early 1960s, in the heat of a libertarian political movement, the filmmaker's images materialize the incandescence of collective desires at the historic moment of their emergence. Utopia, though unattainable, is never a mere abstraction. A force that mobilizes actions and feelings, it constitutes the impetus necessary for human existence.Read moreLess
In Esdras Baptista's film archives, kept at his home for decades, one can feel the fervor of those who believed in a new tomorrow. Filmed in Brazil in the early 1960s, in the heat of a libertarian political movement, the filmmaker's images materialize the incandescence of collective desires at the historic moment of their emergence. Utopia, though unattainable, is never a mere abstraction. A force that mobilizes actions and feelings, it constitutes the impetus necessary for human existence.
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In Esdras Baptista's film archives, kept at his home for decades, one can feel the fervor of those who believed in a new tomorrow. Filmed in Brazil in the early 1960s, in the heat of a libertarian political movement, the filmmaker's images materialize the incandescence of collective desires at the historic moment of their emergence. Utopia, though unattainable, is never a mere abstraction. A force that mobilizes actions and feelings, it constitutes the impetus necessary for human existence.
Cast & crew
Rafael de CarvalhoSelf (archive footage)
Helena IgnezSelf (archive footage)
Oduvaldo Vianna FilhoSelf (archive footage)
Joel BarcellosSelf (archive footage)
Jorge CoutinhoSelf (archive footage)
Armando CostaSelf (archive footage)
João GoulartSelf (archive footage)
Tancredo NevesSelf (archive footage)Explore the crew
- Director
- Reinaldo Cardenuto
- Writer
- Reinaldo Cardenuto
- Producer
- Rafael de Luna Freire
- Editor
- Laura Batitucci
