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UNCLE TOMMY - THE MAN WHO FOUNDED NEWS-WEEK

TIO TOMMY - O HOMEM QUE FUNDOU A NEWS-WEEK

By Loli MENEZES

Biography - Completed 2021

When the tomb of the founder of Newsweek magazine, Thomas John Cardell Martyn, is found in a tiny countryside city in southern Brazil, a thread of mysteries, secrets, gaps and suspicion is raised over his past as a spy.

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It's All True 2021

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Durban 2021

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- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Biography, Documentary
- Countries
- BRAZIL, USA, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Loli MENEZES
- Producer(s)
- Loli MENEZES (Vinil Filmes)
- Synopsis
- Thomas J C Martyn, founder of the American magazine Newsweek, is buried in Agrolândia - a small country side town in the southern part of Brazil. Taking this odd discovery as starting point, the movie investigates the life of this important and secretive character. Thomas was a man of great deeds: he fought in the WWI as a pilot of the Royal Flying Corps, was the first international correspondent of Time magazine and The New York Times, attended big wheels in New York alongside Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Luce, Nelson Rockefeller and Roosevelt, founded the second largest American national magazine and, after suffering a blow, moved to South America during World War II where he engaged in international politics. Through interviews, documents, photos, films, audio tapes, letters and manuscripts, the film tries to reconstruct Thomas' trajectory, a life full of gaps. A road movie between New York and São Paulo, Cornwall and Agrolândia, Rio de Janeiro and Connecticut, where secrets, truths and lies will confront different versions of who was this mysterious man and how he became Uncle Tommy.

UNCLE TOMMY - THE MAN WHO FOUNDED NEWS-WEEK

TIO TOMMY - O HOMEM QUE FUNDOU A NEWS-WEEK

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