EXILE IN BRAZILIAN CINEMATOGRAPHIC PRODUCTIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FILM DIARIO DE UMA BUSCA, BY FLAVIA CASTRO

Abstract

This work analyzes aspects relating to the experience of exile experienced by political activists persecuted during the Military Dictatorship, which occurred in Brazil, from 1964 to 1985,and the reflections of this experience in Brazilian cinematographic productions. To do this, we took as our object of study the film Diary of a Quest, released in Brazil in 2010, directed and starring Flávia Castro, daughter of Celso Castro, a militant found dead inside the apartment of a former Nazi officer in 1984. In this way, we work with Cinema and Dictatorship and their relationship with the concepts of Testimony Film (Gutfreind, 2011) and Search Cinema (Bartolomeu; Veiga, 2014). This work is justified by the need to understand how the arts, especially cinema, were established after the end of the dictatorship and how it can be used as an object of resistance. As a main result, we highlight, in this article, the way in which children were affected by historical material and the importance of search cinema in the constitution of the memory of the second generation.