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Four Days in September | |
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Directed by | Bruno Barreto |
Written by | Leopoldo Serran |
Based on | O Que É Isso, Companheiro? by Fernando Gabeira |
Produced by | Lucy Barreto Luiz Carlos Barreto |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Félix Monti |
Edited by | Isabelle Rathery |
Music by | Stewart Copeland |
Production companies | Filmes do Equador Luiz Carlos Barreto Produções Cinematográficas |
Distributed by | RioFilme Miramax |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | Brazil |
Language | Portuguese |
Box office | R$1.8 million[1] |
Four Days in September (Portuguese: O Que É Isso, Companheiro?, lit. 'What Is This, Comrade?') is a 1997 Brazilian thriller film directed by Bruno Barreto and produced by his parents Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto. It is a dramatized version of the 1969 kidnapping of the United States Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by members of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8) and Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN).
It was nominated as Best Foreign Language Film at the 1998 Academy Awards.[2]