A 50-year rebel's life, compressed into 50 minutes of pure Brazilian fire.
It tells the life of anarchist Antônio Fernandes Mendes from his birth, in 1936, in Quixeramobim-CE until his death, in 2015, in Salvador-BA.
Direction
Pronzato crafts urgency from archival stillness.
Production
Northeast Brazil as character, not just backdrop.
Director
Carlos Pronzato
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brazilian anarchism has deep roots in immigrant labor movements, particularly Italian and Spanish workers in São Paulo—Mendes represents a rarer Northeastern, homegrown strain often overlooked in national narratives.
Carlos Pronzato is primarily known as a photographer; this documentary emerged from years of documenting Brazilian social movements, making Mendes both subject and culmination of his visual practice.
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