Brazil: An Inconvenient History (2000)
47 min
At first glance Brazil appears to be an alluring playground of exciting carnivals, sultry samba, divine football and a vibrantly diverse people. But behind this dazzling facade lies a disturbing story of history’s largest-ever slave population. Astonishingly Brazil, a Portuguese colony, received ten-times more African slaves than the numbers transported to North America. This programme looks at those estimated 4 million people with whose blood, sweat and tears Brazil was built. Without them none of Brazil’s present-day success and appeal would exist. Using contemporary testimonies, this film takes a hard look at Brazil s dark history through the eyes of those slaves. They lived in squalid conditions on remote plantations or in teeming cities harboring fatal diseases. Most Africans survived only seven years in this ‘New World’.
- Date de sortie
- 29 avril 2000
- Pays d'origine
- Pas encore disponible
- Musique
- Dimitri Tchamouroff
Distribution
- Sean Barrett dans le rôle de Self - Narrator
- Joao Jose Reis dans le rôle de Self - Historian, University of Bahia
- John Hemming dans le rôle de Self - Historian - Director of Survival International
- Hakim Adi dans le rôle de Self - Historian: African and Black British History
- Peter Fry dans le rôle de Self - Anthropologist, National Museum, Rio de Janeiro
- David Birmingham dans le rôle de Self - Historian: African Slave Trade
- Cid Teixeira dans le rôle de Self - Historian: Brazilian Slavery - Descendant of Slaves
- Sylvio Garcez dans le rôle de Self - Descendant of Plantation Owner
- Geraldo Lopes de Lima dans le rôle de Self - Former Cajaiba Plantation Worker
- Marilene Rosa Da Silva dans le rôle de Self - Historian, University of Rio de Janeiro - Descendant of Slaves
Équipe technique
- Phil Grabsky · Réalisateur
- Phil Grabsky · Scénariste
- Dimitri Tchamouroff · Compositeur
- Jonathan Partridge · Directeur de la photographie
- Phil Reynolds · Monteur