

Marcos Medeiros - Codinome Vampiro
2018-03-31 · 85 min · Not rated
Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.
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- Vicente Duque Estrada
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- Cavídeo Produções
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- Brazil
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Fernando GabeiraSelf
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