The Year the Dream Died: Brazil in 1985 and the Death of the Second Republic
In a nameless, gray, Brutalist metropolis, low-level government clerk Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) dreams of escaping his drab life. He fantasizes about being a winged hero, saving a beautiful damsel in a cloud-filled paradise. In reality, he lives with his plastic-surgeried mother, works in a maze of pneumatic tubes and endless paperwork, and tries to avoid the attention of his sadistic boss, Mr. Helpmann. Brazil -1985-
January 15, 1985. For two decades, Brazilians had lived under the Institutional Acts (AI-5), censorship, torture, and the forced silence of Congress. The military regime, which seized power in a coup in 1964, had carefully controlled the transition. They proposed indirect elections for the presidency, keeping the vote confined to an electoral college dominated by their allies. The Year the Dream Died: Brazil in 1985