Four Days in September is screening as part of our LC Barreto: 60 Years of Brazilian Film Production programme, in partnership with the ICA.

Fernando and César join rebel group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late 1960s. When César is captured during a bank holdup, Fernando decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners.

The Brazilian thriller was directed by Bruno Barreto and produced by his parents Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto. It is a dramatisation of the 1969 kidnapping of the US Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by members of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8) and Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN). The film is loosely based on the memoirs of a politician Fernando Gabeira who was a member of the MR-8 and stars Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres (I'm Still Here.).

Nominated as Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards.

Cast:
Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Cláudia Abreu, Luiz Fernando Guimarães