Four Days in September with Alan Arkin: DVD Cover

    Four Days in September
    a.k.a. O Que E Isso, Companheiro?, Four Days in September Director: Bruno Barreto Cast: Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres

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    • DVD Release Date: 04/08/2003
    • Original Release: 1997
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 44,880

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    Features

    Closed Caption; Original Portuguese-language track; French-language track; Dolby Digital Surround Sound; Widescreen (1.85:1), enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions; Trailor

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Opening Credits: Demonstrations [4:33]
    2. Joining the Resistance [7:11]
    3. "Revolutionary Expropriation" [3:21]
    4. Breaking the Wall of Silence [4:15]
    5. A Good Idea [8:29]
    6. Abducting the Ambassador [9:06]
    7. "Innocent Kids With Big Dreams" [7:04]
    8. Passing Artur [4:58]
    9. Interrogation [4:19]
    10. Communicating Demands [7:50]
    11. "Dear Elvira" [6:35]
    12. Blown Cover [8:01]
    13. Waning Moments [6:18]
    14. The End of the Game [9:19]
    15. Turned Upside Down [8:40]
    16. End Credits [6:23]

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    Bruno Barreto returned to his native Brazil after a ten-year absence to direct this fact-based political thriller that was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Pedro Cardoso stars as Rio de Janeiro journalist Fernando Gabeira, who decides with his friend Cesar (Selton Mello) to take up arms with a radical leftist organization, MR-8, in 1969. The revolutionaries, who include the tough-talking and beautiful Maria (Fernanda Torres), are fighting to overthrow Brazil's brutal military government through civil unrest and guerilla tactics. Their first action, the robbery of a bank, is successful, although one group member is captured and tortured by Henrique (Marco Ricca), a secret service agent plagued by his conscience. As a follow-up to the heist, the MR-8 members kidnap the U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick (Alan Arkin). During four days of captivity, however, the kidnappers discover that their prisoner is a good-hearted man of conscience, causing Fernando to become increasingly uneasy about the group's plan to kill Elbrick if a demand for the release of political prisoners goes unheeded. O Que E Isso, Companheiro? (1997) was based on Gabeira's book of the same name but was released in the U.S. under the title Four Days in September. Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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    August 15, 2002: I watched this movie many years ago. I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1964 - the year the story unfolded. Many decades later, I had the unique coincidental privilege to meet Mr. Bob D., the now 80 year old adorable gentleman who was the US ambassador to Brazil on the occasion of the American diplomat's kidnapping in Rio. I heard the original story from Mr. Bob D. as well as have seen the movie. Rio in beautifully pictured in that movie and I cannot wait to own a DVD copy of that historic documentary however, to this day, it has not been released in DVD format yet!!! This is a cry for the publishers to release a DVD version of this movie. For the culturally inclined, one of the best pictures of Rio de Janeiro worth having it forever thus, a DVD must be released!!!

    This review was written about the VHS edition.