Four Days in September

• Alan Arkin: Charles Burke Elbrick
• Pedro Cardoso: Fernando Gabeira / Paulo
• Fernanda Torres Maria
• Luiz Fernando Guimarães: Marcão
• Cláudia Abreu: Reneé
• Selton Mello: Oswaldo
• Fernanda Montenegro: Dona Margarida
• Milton Gonçalves:
• Othon Bastos

Four Days in September ( O Que É Isso original title, companheiro? ) Is a political thriller by Brazilian director Bruno Barreto from the year 1997. One of the main roles played Alan Arkin.

The film is about a hostage of the U.S. ambassador in Brazil by a small group of Standing cons at the time of the military dictatorship. The Shown is based on the autobiographical account in The guerrillas are tired of Fernando Gabeira described events, as in 1969, the guerilla movement "MR -8" ( Movimento Revolucionario 8 de Outubro, dt about Revolutionary Movement October 8 ) the U.S. ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick kidnapped.

Four days in September had its premiere at the Berlinale in 1997, then under the title The guerrillas are tired.

Action

The film follows the two friends Renee and Marcão that a group of resistance fighters left join. The fact that they know each other, they have to hide it, as a bond of friendship - and personal acquaintance as a whole - are not desirable. They are equipped with sham identities and undergo an extensive training.

The aim of the unit to which they have attached themselves, is the kidnapping of the U.S. ambassador to force the release of imprisoned comrades. During the period of hostage-taking and the Interrogationen slowly developed the approach of a personal relationship between some of the kidnappers and their hostage, threatens to become a problem.

In this way, the film is interspersed with the human side of a political resistance movement and with the problem of an violent resistance apart against a dictatorial regime and records sensitive the different characters of the protagonists.

Criticism

The film was largely well received and nominated among others for an Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bear. Yet he was hardly noticed because of its limited distribution in Germany.

Bettina Bremme wrote after the Berlinale for the Latin America News: " Positive is definitely that Barreto dispensed with the usual clichés and black-and- white painting and tries to approach all persons acting with the same openness. [ ... ] The film is interested in the other hand, barely covering the political background of the kidnapping, which results in a different way for narrowing the viewing angle. 's Military dictatorship and the role of U.S. foreign policy [ ... ] - all that remains shadowy and vague "

Interest

• In Germany the film has not yet been released on DVD or VHS. There are only a DVD with the english subtitled original and the French-language dubbed version, which is marketed in Canada by Alliance Atlantis.
• Latin America News reports: "So sat in the Berlinale press conference of ex- guerrilla Francisco Gabeira, after its original literary work of the film was made, and the daughter of the abductees on the podium to present the film [ sic]. "