| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film Brazil. |
Miramax Films
Directed by Bruno Barreto
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Miramax)
Students in Brazil become revolutionaries to fight a dictatorship in the late 60s. One of them comes up with the idea to kidnap the American ambassador and exchange his release for friends who have become political prisoners. They plan and carry out the kidnapping with relative ease, then hide out in a Rio mansion with their prisoner. Alan Arkin as the ambassador is sympathetic to their cause, and the students eventually come to respect him, even like him, despite the possibility of his execution if a deadline is reached and their demands are not met. The film is rather low-key, especially considering the subject matter, but on the other hand the deliberate pace does allow for the characters to be fleshed out instead of being mere stereotypes.
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