Brazil: Cinema, Sex and the Generals

Brazil: Cinema, Sex and the Generals (1985

1985 in film

-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...

) is a documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

directed by Simon Hartog

Simon Hartog

Simon Hartog was a British filmmaker.- Life: 8 February 1940 - 18 August 1992 :Hartog was born in England but lived in Chicago from the age of eight, after his parents divorced. He always retained an American accent, although after many years in England as an adult, his accent was not entirely...

that examines Brazilian filmmakers who used the pornochanchada
Pornochanchada
Pornochanchada is the name given to a genre of sexploitation films produced in Brazil that was popular during the 1970s and early 1980s. Its name combined pornô and chanchada ....

genre to escape censorship of their socially critical films during dictatorial rule in Brazil.

This documentary seems to have been censored in the United Kingdom.

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