Pra Frente, Brasil

Pra Frente, Brasil
Pra Frente, Brasil
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Directed by	Roberto Farias
Written by	Roberto Farias
Based on	Sala Escura; by Reginaldo Faria; Paulo Mendonça;
Produced by	Roberto Farias
Starring	Reginaldo Faria; Antônio Fagundes; Natália do Valle; Elizabeth Savalla
Cinematography	Dib Lutfi
Edited by	Mauro Farias; Roberto Farias
Music by	Egberto Gismonti
Production; companies	Embrafilme; Produções Cinematográficas R.F. Farias Ltda.
Distributed by	Embrafilme
Release dates	March 1982 (Gramado Film Festival); 14 February 1983;
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Brazil
Language	Portuguese

Pra Frente, Brasil (English: Go Ahead, Brazil!) is a 1982 Brazilian drama film directed, written and produced by Roberto Farias. It tells the fictional story of a man mistakenly arrested by a group linked to the military dictatorship during the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

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The film is set on mid 1970, when the military regime's "economic miracle" and the victory of the Brazil national football team on the FIFA World Cup serves as a distraction for the persecution of opposition leaders by the political police of the dictatorship.

Under this context, Jofre Godoi da Fonseca, an alienated middle class man, is mistaken for Sarmento, a political activist he met at an airport prior to his assassination. He is then arrested and brutally tortured by a paramilitary group of vigilantes sponsored by influential businessmen to hunt down people deemed "subversive" by the regime.

Jofre's wife Marta and his brother Miguel join forces to investigate his disappearance. After they fail to get enough support from law enforcement agents, Mariana, leader of a left-wing resistance group and Miguel's former girlfriend, helps them. Their efforts proved to be useless after Jofre is killed on a failed escape attempt.