Lúcia Murat

Directing

Biography

Lúcia Murat is a Brazilian filmmaker. Murat participated in the student and guerrilla movements against the military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1960–1970s. She was imprisoned and tortured by military agents; that experience exerts a strong influence on her work.

Born: October 24, 1948

Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Known For

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Jessie e Colombo

A story of love and revolution told through letters written by a couple in the dungeons of the dictatorship. The emotional bonds tied together the past and present of two oppressed families.

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Ibiúna, Primavera Brasileira

The clandestine congress of the National Union of Students, held in October 1968, resulted in the collective arrest and registration of 700 students who opposed the dictatorship.

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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

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The Messenger

Vera, imprisoned at a military fortress during the dictatorship, 1969, get to know a soldier, Armando, who, in the face of torture, decides to take messages from Vera to his family and establishes an affective relationship with D. Maria, Vera’s mother. Despite the horrors of the time, the film works on this possibility of a dialogue between two lonely and lost human beings: a high-middle-class lady and a young southerner of rural origin. Today, Vera, aged 70, is a professor at the university, and debates with her students about politics, forgiveness and Hannah Arendt.

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Incontáveis

The series focuses on the violence of the Brazilian dictatorship against women, the LGBTQIA+ population, a black population living in favelas, indigenous peoples, students and educators, and rural and urban workers.

Filmography

2024

The Messenger

as Professora

2023

Jessie e Colombo

as Self

2021

Incontáveis

as self (voice)

2020

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

as Self

2019

Ibiúna, Primavera Brasileira

as Self