Censorship in Brazil
The first public screening of the film was expected to happen at the Rio de Janeiro Modern Art Museum in March 1994. One day before the premiere, the Military Police received an order to fulfill a court warrant requiring the confiscation of movie posters and the copy of the film. The direction of the museum was threatened with a heavy fine in case of disobedience. The Secretary of Culture of Rio de Janeiro, put under pressure, was fired just three days after the incident.
Through the 1990s, the film was illegally screened in Universities and political acts without public notice. In 1995, Globo requested in court the confiscation of copies available at the library of the University of São Paulo, but the claim was overruled. The film was restricted to University groups until the 2000s (decade), with the internet boom in Brazil — currently the 5th country by number of web users and 1st in time spent in internet per month — that made the film widely available.
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