Tuesday, April 9th
7:00pm - 9:00pm
All ages, by donation, $10 suggested
TPopcorn and refreshments provided
Rubber Soldiers (Soldados da Borracha)(Brasil, 2010) (view trailer), by Cesar Garcia Lima – is the story of fifty five thousand Brazilian men who moved to the Amazon to collect rubber during the Second World War. Film will be followed by a Q&A discussion with filmmaker Cesar Garcia Lima, who will join us via Skype from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bloombars, in association with the Camões Institute, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Georgetown University, the Washington Portuguese Language Meetup Group and the Embassies of Cape Verde, Brazil and Portugal, is proud to present our monthly series which highlights Portuguese language film and Lusophone culture.
More about the film: Between 1942 and 1945, fifty-five thousand Brazilian men worked in the Amazon to extract rubber as part of the World War II effort. At the end of the war, they received no tributes and continued extracting rubber in the forest in the Brazilian state of Acre, where most of them later died. Acre was the site of the largest number of these workers, and in this film four survivors of this period share their stories. (Portuguese with English subtitles).
Bloombars, in association with the Camões Institute, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Georgetown University, the Washington Portuguese Language Meetup Group and the Embassies of Cape Verde, Brazil and Portugal, is proud to present our monthly series which highlights Portuguese language film and Lusophone culture.
3222 11th St, NW
Metro: Columbia Heights, walk north on 14th one block, turn right on Kenyon, left on 11th
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