Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos

Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos

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.

  • Title: Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos
  • Popularity: 0.008
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1945-02-25
  • Place of Birth: Minas Gerais, Brazil
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  • Also Known As: Dôra, Dodora, Maria Lara Barcellos
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Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos Movies

  • 2022
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    O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2
    O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2

    1 2022 HD

    With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on...

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  • 1971
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    Brazil: A Report on Torture
    Brazil: A Report on Torture

    7.2 1971 HD

    The filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government who were at that point supported by the US government.

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  • 2013
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    Seventy
    Seventy

    6.3 2013 HD

    In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy...

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  • 1978
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    Quando Chegar o Momento
    Quando Chegar o Momento

    1 1978 HD

    Her name was Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos, but she was called Dora. She was 31 years old, born and raised in Brazil. On June 1, 1976, she took...

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  • 1971
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    It's Not Time to Cry
    It's Not Time to Cry

    5 1971 HD

    Through the testimony of the victims of the Brazilian dictatorship, and the re-creation of the practices to which they were subjected, the torture...

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  • 2018
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    Clandestine Soul
    Clandestine Soul

    1 2018 HD

    "Clandestine Soul" is a sensory and emotional biography of the Brazilian political activist, Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos.

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  • 2014
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    Retratos de Identificação
    Retratos de Identificação

    7 2014 HD

    Among the many victims of the military dictatorship that raged in Brazil from 1964 to 1985, a small group of guerilla fighters – Chael,...

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