IN SEACH OF IARA

By Flavio FREDERICO

KINOSCOPIO - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2013

Through a personal investigation of her niece, Mariana, the film recover the life of the guerrilla Iara Iavelberg, one of the most famous targets of the brazilian dictatorship. The film dismantles the official version, which attributes Iara’s death in Salvador in 1971 to a suicide.

Festivals
& Awards

É tudo verdade 2013
Festival do Rio 2013
Festival Internacional do Uruguai 2013
Festival de Havana 2013
    • Year of production
    • 2013
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 91 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Flavio FREDERICO
    • Writer(s)
    • Mariana PAMPLONA
    • Producer(s)
    • Flavio FREDERICO (Kinoscopio), Flavio FREDERICO (KInoscopio)
    • Synopsis
    • Through a personal investigation of her niece, Mariana Pamplona, the film recover the life of the guerrilla Iara Iavelberg. She was a cultured and beautiful woman who left behind a comfortable family life, opting to engage in an armed struggle against the military dictatorship in Brazil. Living in hiding, in on routine of kidnappings and armed actions, she became the companion of the ex-army caption Carlos Lamarca, sharing whit him the post of one of the most sought after targets of the military regime. The film dismantles the official version of the dictatorship, which attributes Iara’s death in Salvador in 1971 to a suicide.