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’.
- Data de estreia
- 29 de abril de 2000
- País de origem
- Ainda indisponível
Elenco
- Sean Barrett como Self - Narrator
- Joao Jose Reis como Self - Historian, University of Bahia
- John Hemming como Self - Historian - Director of Survival International
- Hakim Adi como Self - Historian: African and Black British History
- Peter Fry como Self - Anthropologist, National Museum, Rio de Janeiro
- David Birmingham como Self - Historian: African Slave Trade
- Cid Teixeira como Self - Historian: Brazilian Slavery - Descendant of Slaves
- Sylvio Garcez como Self - Descendant of Plantation Owner
- Geraldo Lopes de Lima como Self - Former Cajaiba Plantation Worker
- Marilene Rosa Da Silva como Self - Historian, University of Rio de Janeiro - Descendant of Slaves
Equipe
- Phil Grabsky · Diretor(a)
- Phil Grabsky · Roteirista
- Dimitri Tchamouroff · Compositor(a)
- Jonathan Partridge · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Phil Reynolds · Editor(a)