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The Roots of Brazil
The Roots of Brazil
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THE ROOTS OF BRAZIL

Raízes do Brasil: Uma Cinebiografia de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda

Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Brazil, 2003
Documentary

Synopsis

Cinebiography of celebrated historian Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, who wrote the seminal “Raízes do Brasil,” with interviews with his large family (including his widow and his seven children, among them Chico Buarque and Miúcha) and scholar friend Antonio Candido.

Synopsis

Cinebiography of celebrated historian Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, who wrote the seminal “Raízes do Brasil,” with interviews with his large family (including his widow and his seven children, among them Chico Buarque and Miúcha) and scholar friend Antonio Candido.