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The documentary is limited to exposing the reality of a Brazil that was finding its prominent role in world chess. Even today, Brazil is influenced by external factors, not least because today the world is much more globalized.

The rulers of that time were not patriots, they had interests of their own. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara had just conquered the island of Cuba. Revolutionary ideas seemed beautiful, and promised hope to the most suffering people.

However, the Brazilian people realized that the interests of the leftist rulers did not have national, but international consistency, mainly interests aligned with the Soviet Union.

Perhaps the most notorious fact is the number of Czechoslovakian spies who settled in Brazil at that time, a documented and unchallenged fact.

The other side of the story is told, and it is far from being an apology for totalitarianism. Worth seeing.

I say it is interesting because it shows how the law is not a science immune to abuse and ideologies, used to commit injustices.

After the advent of the French Revolution, and many subsequent events, legal science and contractual relations became the great tenets of modern society, but the powerful of this Earth always found a way to pervert things, and with the science of law it was not different.

From the point of view of legal principles it's painful, but what relieves conscience are the negatives of the great jurists, leaving only a few pessimists who thought that Nazi Germany would be the new world order after the Second War. They went bad, they got dirty in the story.

We must never give in to evil, even if it imposes itself as a new and "saving" order of the motherland.

This movie shows that freedom is a natural human right, in which no ideology can ever hinder or even instrumentalize human beings to achieve their ends. There will always be people who will do anything to escape a totalitarian regime, and communism will always be the regime that creates freedom lovers, but who will not be communists, obviously.

Analyzing the film itself, its photography leaves us amazed, puts us on the scene, and takes us back to the past. Director Michael Herbig uses an interesting set of scenes that makes us apprehensive, but I found it quite predictable. There was, perhaps, an excess of this technique, and there comes a moment when you realize it, and it ends up having an opposite effect than expected.

The ending, however, for those who do not know the story, leaves really apprehensive, because we are in doubt if it really worked or not.