Dear Ambassador
Directed by: 
Luiz Fernando Goulart
Original title: 
Querido Embaixador
2017
 | 
89
 min 
 | 
DCP
 | 
Subtitles: 
French
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 | 
Documentary
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Festival du Cinéma Brésilien de Paris 21
14/4/19
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Based on true facts, and supported by testimonies and archival images, DEAR AMBASSADOR tells the story of Luiz de Souza Dantas, the Brazilian ambassador who in World War II objected to the express and secret orders of Getúlio Vargas, which prohibited our embassies from giving Brazilian Visas to "Jews and other undesirables". He goes on to disregard these orders, defying Vargas, the French Government, and Nazism. He approved more than a thousand diplomatic visas, all granted to those persecuted by the Nazi regime.

CAST

Norival Rizzo, Alice Assef, Miriam Mehler, Felipe Rocha, Isio Ghelman, Antonio Fragoso, Daniel Ericsson, Gustavo Ottoni, Bruno Guida, Helio Ribeiro, Flávio Pardal.

CREDITS

- Executive Producer: Heloisa Rezende
- Screenplay: Luiz Carlos Maciel and Flavia Orlando - inspired by the book Quixote das Trevas by Fabio Koifman
- Cinematography by: Julio Costantini
- Editing: Tamiris Lourenço and Paula Fanaia
- Production Management: Lais Chamma
- Direct sound: Laura Zimmermann
- Original Soundtrack: Cristóvão Bastos
- Sound Editing: João Jabace
- Mixing: Visom Digital
- Art Direction and Set Design: Dina Salem Levy
- Costume Designer: Diana East
- Audiovisual Archive Production: Antonio Venancio
- Co-production: Canal Brasil S.A; Globo Comunicação e Participações S.A.

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

- Rio International Film Festival (2017)
- JIFF (Jewish International Film Festival) -Australia, San Diego, New Zealand, Toronto (2018)
- Jewish CInema Festival in São Paulo (2018)
- Jewish CInema Festival in Rio de Janeiro (2018)
- University of Wisconsin Festival (2018)
- University of Florida Festival (2018)
- Berlin Film Festival (2019)
- Paris Brazilian Film Festival (2019)

PREVIOUS SCREENING 
Festival du Cinéma Brésilien de Paris 21
DATE: 
14/4/2019
  time: 
16:00
SCREENING FOLLOWED BY A PANEL WITH: 
director Luiz Fernando Goulart
PREVIOUS SCREENING 
Festival du Film Brésilien de Montréal 13
DATE: 
28/10/2019
  time: 
18:30
SCREENING FOLLOWED BY A PANEL WITH: 
Ambassador Rubens Gama

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