Looking for Iara

Looking for Iara (2013)

Em Busca de Iara

Investigation of the life of ex-guerrilla Iara Iavelberg (1944-1971), a cultured and beautiful woman who left behind a comfortable family life opting to engage in an armed struggle against the Brazilian military dictatorship.

Date of release
2013-04-10
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Flávio Frederico, Mariana Pamplona

Interesting facts

Em Busca de Iara is a 2013 Brazilian documentary film directed by Flavio Frederico about the guerrilla Iara Iavelberg, a woman who participated in the armed struggle against the dictatorship in Brazil. With the research of documents, archive footage and interviews, the documentary reconstructs the life of Iara and disassembles the official version, which assigns her death to suicide.

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