Marcos Medeiros - Codinome Vampiro

Mar 31, 2018

1h 25m

★ 0.0

Overview

Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.

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Marcos Medeiros

Self

Fernando Gabeira

Ivana Bentes

María Fernández Ache

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