Four Days in September

Four Days in September (Portuguese: O Que É Isso, Companheiro?, lit.'What Is This, Comrade?') is a 1997 Brazilian thriller film directed by Bruno Barreto and produced by his parents Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto. It is a dramatized version of the 1969 kidnapping of the United States Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by members of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8) and Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN).

Four Days in September
Original film poster
Directed byBruno Barreto
Written byLeopoldo Serran
Based onO Que É Isso, Companheiro?
by Fernando Gabeira
Produced byLucy Barreto
Luiz Carlos Barreto
Starring
CinematographyFélix Monti
Edited byIsabelle Rathery
Music byStewart Copeland
Production
companies
Filmes do Equador
Luiz Carlos Barreto Produções Cinematográficas
Distributed byRioFilme
Miramax
Release date
  • 19 April 1997 (1997-04-19)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese
Box officeR$1.8 million

It was nominated as Best Foreign Language Film at the 1998 Academy Awards.

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