2010 Official Selection

Citizen Boilesen, US Premiere

Brazil’s political environment in the 1970s is the setting for Chaim Litewski’s film from Brazil about the connections between the country’s business elite and its military establishment. Litewski chronicles Brazil’s descent into violence as the forces of the establishment react to the challenges from the Left.  The focus is on Henning Boilesen, a native of Denmark, who emigrated to Brazil at an early age and became a powerful and influential business figure in his adopted country.

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