Person
Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos
Acting · 1945–1976 · Minas Gerais, Brazil
Biography
Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos (Antônio Dias, March 25, 1945 - West Berlin, June 1, 1976) was a guerrilla member of the organization Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares – VAR-Palmares – who participated in the armed struggle against the military dictatorship installed in Brazil in 1964. On November 21, 1969, she was imprisoned and brutally tortured, being released in January 1971 and sent to Chile after the swiss ambassador Giovanni Bucher was kidnapped by the armed guerrilla VPR which damanded that political prisoners were set free in exchange for the ambassador's life. She died by suicide in 1976.
Known for
Retratos de Identificação
2014
Clandestine Soul
Self - Archive Footage
Seventy
Self (archive footage)
Quando Chegar o Momento
Herself
It's Not Time to Cry
Self
O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2
Self (archive footage)
Brazil: A Report on Torture
Herself
Filmography
- 2022O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2Self (archive footage)
- 2018Clandestine SoulSelf - Archive Footage
- 2014Retratos de Identificação
- 2013SeventySelf (archive footage)
- 1978Quando Chegar o MomentoHerself
- 1971Brazil: A Report on TortureHerself
- 1971It's Not Time to CrySelf
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