Main Cast: Pedro Cardoso, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Alan Arkin
Release Year: 1997
Country: BR
Run Time: 110 minutes
Plot
Bruno Barreto returned to his native Brazil after a ten-year absence to direct this fact-based political thriller that was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Pedro Cardoso stars as Rio de Janeiro journalist Fernando Gabeira, who decides with his friend Cesar (Selton Mello) to take up arms with a radical leftist organization, MR-8, in 1969. The revolutionaries, who include the tough-talking and beautiful Maria (Fernanda Torres), are fighting to overthrow Brazil's brutal military government through civil unrest and guerilla tactics. Their first action, the robbery of a bank, is successful, although one group member is captured and tortured by Henrique (Marco Ricca), a secret service agent plagued by his conscience. As a follow-up to the heist, the MR-8 members kidnap the U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick (Alan Arkin). During four days of captivity, however, the kidnappers discover that their prisoner is a good-hearted man of conscience, causing Fernando to become increasingly uneasy about the group's plan to kill Elbrick if a demand for the release of political prisoners goes unheeded. O Que E Isso, Companheiro? (1997) was based on Gabeira's book of the same name but was released in the U.S. under the title Four Days in September. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
Stewart Copeland's score for Bruno Barreto's cinematic adaptation of Fernando Gaberia's book Four Days in September doesn't suffer when it is isolated from the film. On its own, it's an evocative mixture of percussion and keyboards, balanced between the symphonic and Brazilian culture. The soundtrack is augmented by Alan Price's "The House of the Rising Sun," Tom Jobim's "The Girl from Ipanema" and Chico Buarque de Holanda's "Madalena Foi Por Mar." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Harvey Weinstein (Executive Producer), Jeff Seitz (Mixing), Toby Pieniek (Executive Producer), Stewart Copeland (Drums), Judd Miller (Producer), Jeff Seitz (Engineer), Paulinho Da Costa (Percussion), Fred Voger (Mastering), Kleber Jorge (Guitar), Bob Weinstein (Executive Producer), Beth Rosenblatt (Music Executive), Michael Dittrick (Editing), Judd Miller (Performer), Andrew Kagan (Art Direction), Emmanuel Chamboredon (Executive Producer), Tricia Lutz (Packaging), Jeff Seitz (Producer), Stewart Copeland (Percussion)
