AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu

Overview

Documentary about a political episode during the Brazilian military dictatorship, which resulted in the issue of the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5), abolishing freedom of opinion in Brazil, and marking the transition to the toughest period of violation of human rights in the country. The episode was the Congress Assembly on December 12th, 1968, in which its members denied permission to punish congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, as was the Government's wish.

Directed by Paulo Markun, Adélia Sampaio

Top cast

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Paulo Markun

Himself

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Márcio Moreira Alves

Himself

Maurício Branco

Márcio Moreira Alves

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Mário Covas

Himself

G

Geraldo Freire

Himself

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Beatriz Gemal

Nysia Carone

Monique Lafond

Júlia Steinbruch

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Almir Martins

Mário Covas

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Jarbas Passarinho

Himself

Tonico Pereira

José Bonifácio

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João Vieittas

Geraldo Freire

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Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Arthur da Costa e Silva

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

João Goulart

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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