Twenty Years Later

This article is about the Brazilian documentary film. For the Musketeers novel, see Twenty Years After.
Twenty Years Later
Theatrical release poster
Directed byEduardo Coutinho
Written byEduardo Coutinho
Produced byEduardo Coutinho
Zelito Viana
Narrated byFerreira Gullar
Tite de Lemos
CinematographyEdgar Moura
Fernando Duarte
Edited byEduardo Escorel
Music byRogério Rossini
Production
company
Mapa Filmes
Distributed byGaumont
Release date
  • December 3, 1984 (1984-12-03)[1]
Running time
119 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese

Twenty Years Later (Portuguese: Cabra Marcado para Morrer, lit. 'A Man Marked for Death') is a 1984 Brazilian documentary film directed by Eduardo Coutinho.

It originated in 1964 as a planned feature film about the life and death of João Pedro Teixeira, a leader of the Peasant leagues from Paraíba who was assassinated on the order of local landowners in 1962. But before it could be completed, production was interrupted by political developments, with some of the crew and cast arrested and their materials confiscated by the Brazilian military dictatorship. In 1984, Coutinho returned to the material, shooting new footage of some of the actors and crew. The resulting critically acclaimed documentary gained a cult following and Brazilian Film Critics Association selected it as one of the best Brazilian films of all time.

  1. ^ "Cabra Marcado para Morrer" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Retrieved April 26, 2014.