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Idealist? Spy trained by the Red Army? Adventurer?
Soldier of the Revolution? Romantic? Who was Olga Benário
Prestes, one of the first victims of the nazis' "final
solution"?
Olga's course has everything to do with this. The kind of
bolshevic iron warrior that was transformed into a woman in
Brazil. That perfect and daring agent that knew fear here.
The militant that was always right that found out how bitter
the so called "historical mistakes" could be.
And what vision did Olga have of Brazil? What twisting path
led foreigners, so elected by history, to loose their way
here. Stefan Zweig, Hans Staden, and even Sarah Bernhardt...A
kind of inside out paradise or the bottom of a well with crystalline
waters?
In the history of cinema, strong female characters became
renowned classics by the media and critics, for being exceptions
in an entertainment industry so focused on the male world.
The drama of a strong woman, determined, idealist and beautiful,
together with the historical polemical context, whose themes
are till this day portraied all over the world: anti-semitism
and nazism, will result in a greater public interest for this
movie.
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