Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos
Also Known As: Dôra, Dodora, Maria Lara Barcellos
Biography: Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos (Antônio Dias, March 25, 1945 - West Berlin, June 1, 1976) was a guerrilla member of the organization Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares – VAR-Palmares – who participated in the armed struggle against the military dictatorship installed in Brazil in 1964. On November 21, 1969, she was imprisoned and brutally tortured, being released in January 1971 and sent to Chile after the swiss ambassador Giovanni Bucher was kidnapped by the armed guerrilla VPR which damanded that political prisoners were set free in exchange for the ambassador's life. She died by suicide in 1976.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: February 25, 1945
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 01, 1976
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O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2
Overview: With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Brazil: A Report on Torture
Overview: The filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government who were at that point supported by the US government.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-21
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Seventy
Overview: In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards they relive their experience of pain, violence and survival, of rebuilding their own story and continuing to believe in the possibility of improving the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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Quando Chegar o Momento
Overview: Her name was Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos, but she was called Dora. She was 31 years old, born and raised in Brazil. On June 1, 1976, she took her own life by throwing herself in front of a subway train in West Berlin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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It's Not Time to Cry
Overview: Through the testimony of the victims of the Brazilian dictatorship, and the re-creation of the practices to which they were subjected, the torture suffered by the Brazilian political detainees in their country is denounced. Restored version.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Clandestine Soul
Overview: "Clandestine Soul" is a sensory and emotional biography of the Brazilian political activist, Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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Retratos de Identificação
Overview: Among the many victims of the military dictatorship that raged in Brazil from 1964 to 1985, a small group of guerilla fighters – Chael, Roberto, Reinaldo and Dora – got arrested, tortured, some of them killed or forced into exile. Before and after their arrest, during their torture sessions, the police photographed them. Together with the official reports, these photos are the material Anita Leandro worked on from the inside to bring these four people’s fate out of oblivion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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