A bank clerk funding revolution in designer suits — capitalism's middle finger to fascism.
True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his disguise, he gets involved with high society, and with industrialists who were financing repression to the groups he stood for.
Acting
José Wilker's smoldering duality — clerk by day, radical by night.
Costume
Disguise as character: each outfit a different dangerous self.
Director
Oswaldo Caldeira
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Brazil's transition to democracy, the film smuggled radical history past fresh censorship. Director Caldeira was blacklisted for years.
The real Lucas — Fernando Gabeira — became a congressman. The film's optimistic ending aged... complicatedly.
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