Long is exhibited at the main show of the Berlin film Festival. Director of the work, Wagner Moura passes political message at the premiere, which is attended by Jean Wyllys. “It’s a necessary film,” says former congressman to DW.
According to the website Dw.com, the first film directed by actor Wagner Moura, Marighella, debuted on Friday (15/02) at the main exhibition of the Berlin film Festival. The work depicts the story of Carlos Marighella, a guerilla guerrilla assassinated by the military dictatorship in 1969. The premiere was marked by protests. On the red carpet, Wagner Moura entered a plaque in honor of Councilor Marielle Franco. The execution of the activist and his driver Anderson Gomes completed eleven months and, until today, the crime remains unanswered. The audience accompanied the team’s entrance by shouting “Marielle present”. “Our film is obviously not only about those who resisted in the decades of 1960 and 1970, but it is also about those who are resisting now,” Moura said after the film’s exhibition, pulling applause from the audience. Speaking in English, the director said he believes that it will be “extremely difficult” to launch the film in Brazil, mentioning the political polarization. According to him, the participation in Berlinale, by promoting the work internationally, will be important for the premiere of the film on Brazilian soil. Moura called the stage the film team and closed his little speech of about five minutes chanting “Marielle present”. In a press conference on Wednesday, the Brazilian had already remembered the death of the councilor. “Marighella was murdered in 1969. A black man, revolutionary, left-wing. He was murdered by the state in a car 50 years ago. And 50 years after Marighella, a councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, also black, left and human rights defender, was murdered in a car probably also by agents of the state, “he said. Asked if the film is a statement to the new Brazilian government, the director said that it is not a response to President Jair Bolsonaro, who on several occasions has left in defense of the military dictatorship and openly manifested support for torture. “This film is probably one of the first cultural products of Brazilian art that is in contrast to the group that is in power in Brazil,” he added. [Embed] https://www.facebook.com/dw.brasil/videos/307881639931424/? t = 47 [/embed] “Our film is bigger than Bolsonaro,” says Wagner Moura. In the premiere of “Marighella” in Berlin, director and actors of the film talk about the current political situation of the country, going through topics such as racism, censorship in education, the assassination of Councilwoman Marielle Franco and police violence. “The police in Brazil are not trained to protect the citizens, they are trained to protect the state,” he denounced.
Inspired by the biography Marighella: The guerrilla who burned the world (Companhia das Letras), written by journalist Mário Magalhães, the film counts with the musician and actor his Jorge in the lead role. The cast also has other names of weight as Adriana Esteves, Bruno Gagliasso, who plays the policeman who pursued Marighella, and Humberto Carrão. “This film is strong, it is visceral, it is potent, but it is moved by love. That no one can forget, “Gagliasso said at the press conference. The narrative of the film begins shortly after the military coup of 1964 and shows the last five years of the life of the guerrilla. Despite being selected for the festival’s main show, Marighella does not compete with the Golden Bear.
First public appearance of Jean Wyllys the premiere of the film also featured the presence of Jean Wyllys (Psol), in the first public appearance of the former congressman since he announced he was giving up his third term in Congress to leave Brazil. Threatened with death, the parliamentarian lived with police escort since the murder of Marielle. To DW Brasil, Wyllys said he had been thrilled with the long. “Marighella was a film that touched me very personally, particularly the situation I’m living in. Wagner Moura built a masterpiece, “he said. “It is a necessary film to instruct the new generations on the fact that we should not be complacent and not so untolerant of torturers. So I don’t regret having spit in the face of the current President of Brazil on the day he praised a torturer in a national jail, “he added. “The decision I took was very difficult, leave behind my family, my friends, my books on account of death threats, on account of a new dictatorship that does not have the characteristics of the dictatorship that Marighella faced, but that has similar points, however Comes in another way, including often invisibilized, “he stressed. Wyllys took advantage to criticize the anti-crime proposals presented by the Minister of Justice, Sérgio Moro. “The package is nothing more than the legitimation, by the state, of torture and violence against any resistance to the economic neoliberal package,” he stressed.
The protesters also denated the risks that the right-wing in Brazil represent for minorities and social movements and warned against reforms that could reduce the right to Workers. The group also recalled the death of Marielle Franco. From Potsdamer Platz, the demonstrators walked towards the Berlinale palace to await the arrival of the cast on the red carpet.
