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Careful there.

No one expected such a quick arrest.

It took everyone by surprise.

A stunning blow for a man
that was elected president twice

and left office with an approval rating
over 80%.

In fact,
he was already planning his comeback.

He's leading in the polls
for presidential elections next year.

The deadline set for ex-president Lula
to turn himself in has ended

to serve prison time
for the triplex apartment charges...

He will not leave!
He will not leave!

He will not leave!
He will not leave!

He will not leave!

Where is he?

DILMA ROUSSEFF
EX-PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL

Oh, my God.

Come on, no crying!

Hey, Luiza Erundina!

Look how strong she is.

- Bye.
- Lula, I'm with you.

Lula in prison!

Lula in prison!

Out with PT (Workers' Party)!

Out with PT!

If that crook Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
stays free,

he'll lead the country into a civil war!

For now, there's no solution yet.

Many patrol cars,

many police vehicles are approaching.

Don't let them jail him!

Circle in, circle in
Don't let them jail him!

ALVORADA PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE
BRASÍLIA

Imagine a country
that took its name from a tree.

Brazilwood.

Its red ink
led it to the brink of extinction.

Only the name remains.

A country where more slaves died
than were born.

It was cheaper
to import another one from Africa.

Where every rebellion
was brutally crushed,

and the Republic,
proclaimed by military generals.

A country that after 21 years
of dictatorship

established its democracy

and became an inspiration
to much of the world.

It seemed Brazil
had finally broken its curse.

But here we are.

With one president impeached,

another imprisoned,

and the nation moving rapidly
towards its authoritarian past.

Today, as I feel the ground opening,

I fear our democracy was nothing

but a short-lived dream.

Blow it. Blow it!
Don't do it with your finger.

Look, Aninha!

- Blow it! Ana, like this.
- Blow it, Petra.

Put on some fun music! Ana Petra loves it.

When I was born,
we couldn't vote for president.

The military dictatorship
was completing its 20th year.

One of my first memories,

I'm on top of my mother's shoulders

seeing a sea of people screaming.

Four, five mille!
We want to vote for president of Brazil!

Brazilian democracy and I
are almost the same age,

and I thought that in our thirties

we would both be standing on solid ground.

- Direct elections!
- Now!

- Direct elections!
- Now!

This is my mother.

She and my father
had spent the '70s in hiding,

fighting against
the military dictatorship.

I WANT TO VOTE FOR PRESIDENT

After briefly going to prison,

they moved to the South of Brazil.

For a decade, their family
had no idea where they lived.

Disguised as a salesman and a teacher,

they organized workers and students
against the regime.

Many of their movement were tortured,
others, killed.

Amongst them, their leader, Pedro Pomar.

I was named Petra in his memory.

And the democratic revolution didn't come.

But a shift happens when massive strikes
would give the dictatorship a strong blow.

1979
STEELWORKERS UNION, SÃO PAULO

Our union is under siege.

We're being horribly oppressed!

Our union is surrounded
by military trucks.

The strikes are lead by this man.

A steelworker and union leader,

Lula is 33 years old in the image.

He only became interested in politics

after he visited Congress
for the first time

and realized that of the 443 congressmen,

only two were of the working class.

Lula! Lula!

We all know

that around the world,

workers never got anything...

without struggle, without perseverance,

and without fighting until the end.

...there's work to be done
in neighborhoods,

there's work to be done at bus stops,

and more importantly,

no one goes to the factory doors!

Lula! Lula!

To my mother, he was the embodiment
of all she had longed for...

workers becoming political actors,

opening the way
towards a democratic path.

And in 1980,

he leads the creation
of the Worker's Party.

We're thinking

of creating a political party

to see if the workers,
at least somewhere in the world,

get the chance to be represented
with dignity.

Runs for president in '89...

To end inflation,

we'll have to attack it at its roots

and that's the bankers,

- the businessmen.
- ...and loses.

In '94...

For the low paid worker,
the priority is a pay raise.

...and loses. In '98...

It's time for a government
that guarantees economic stability

supporting all who want to plant,
produce and create jobs.

...and loses.

Until, in 2002, he decides to compromise.

To say also to the businessmen

that Brazil really needs them.

Marília's giving Petra instructions.

Feminist voting here, huh?

- Her daughter's political education.
- We're choosing a woman for Congress.

- Bye.
- Bye.

Brazil gained wealth from the mills

and sugarcane plantations

in early colonial times.

But it didn't beat hunger.

It declared its independence
and abolished slavery,

but it didn't beat hunger.

It knew wealth from gold mines
in Minas Gerais

and coffee plantations
in the Paraíba Valley,

but it didn't beat hunger.

It became industrialized...

I was 19 when Lula got elected,

and I remember the excitement,
that wasn't just in me.

It had taken over the streets.

While there's a single Brazilian

suffering from hunger,

we have plenty of reason

to feel shame.

I remember the fear,

the disbelief
that they would let him take office

and the hope
that the country's dire injustices

would finally be addressed.

We're starting today

a new chapter in Brazil's history.

Not as a submissive nation,

giving up its sovereignty;

not as an unfair nation,

passively watching
the suffering of the poor;

JANUARY 1, 2003

but as a proud, noble nation,

bravely affirming itself in the world,

as a nation of all its people,

with no distinction of class,
ethnic background, sex or creed.

Today is the day

Brazil encounters itself again.

Watch how long it takes for him
to cross this Congress.

A sculptor whose material is human clay.

These hugs reflect both his charisma
and his decision to compromise.

Elected with 61% of the votes,

he still has a problem.

His coalition has less than half
of the seats in Congress.

His party is soon caught
in a corrupution scandal,

accused of buying votes
to secure a majority.

His chief of staff resigns,
and, soon after,

Lula's other possible successors
also fall.

Lula manages to distance himself
from the scandal.

But it would be a cloud
that would follow him.

He then resorts to a new alliance
with the most powerful party in Congress,

the PMDB.

I voted for Lula

with the hope that he would
ethically reform the political system,

and here he was, repeating practices
that he had always criticized

and forming alliances
with Brazil's old oligarchy.

Lula! Lula!

But, at the same time,

I was seeing 20 million people
leaving poverty.

The program the govern created,
Bolsa Família,

provided around 30 dollars per month
to each of Brazil's poorest families.

The number of afro-descendants
in university triples,

unemployment rates
reach the lowest number in history...

and, amidst a global economic collapse,

Brazil rises from 13th
to 8th largest economy in the world.

The first thing he did

was put food
on the table of the poor worker,

the small farmer...

I've two daughters in college,

thanks to government programs.

The current government
is prioritizing "racist" quotas

against white people in our country.

We've arrived at the end...of everything.

He was a big letdown.
He was of the working class

and could've made this country way better.

He did a good job at first...

then got lost to the corruption that...

rules this country.

Today I have a home.

My sister got her nursing degree,

my daughter's doing nutrition.

We needed the Bolsa Família program,

and thanks to it, we've advanced.

We're off the Bolsa now,
but we got better because of it.

I love this man from my heart.

This is my man right there.
Love this guy!

The most popular politician on Earth.

The discovery of one of the largest
oil reserves in the world,

which would be used to invest
in social programs,

was a blessing...

that would soon turn into a curse.

And now we've the chance to talk
with a special guest.

The economist who started young,

working first as Municipal Secretary,

then as State Secretary,

Minister of Energy, Chief of Staff...

Here, Lula is presenting
his anointed successor, Dilma Rousseff.

I brought Dilma here
so she can smile for you.

Dilma was a former guerilla fighter
imprisoned during the dictatorship.

In this picture, she's being questioned
after 22 days of torture.

While her interrogators hide their faces,

she sits up high.

The art of resisting torture
lies in thinking,

"It's just one more minute."

If you think it'll be five

or 20, it's too hard to bear.

So you think, "One more minute, two..."

and keep tricking yourself on and on

trying to overcome

what's inherently human, which is pain.

There's already an 11% difference.

DILMA ROUSSEFF ELECTED
BRAZIL'S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT

They just announced
that Dilma was elected president!

Our President.

Wait, our President's here!

Eh, President...you invented this!

I was born in a world
my mother wanted to transform.

And I was becoming an adult

in a world closer
to what we had dreamt of.

It felt like a change of symbols,

of possibilities.

GIVE ME DEMOCRACY
OR GIVE ME DEATH

7 YEARS LATER

Mom, how did you feel
when she was elected

or chosen?

I felt...

like I identified.

More and more as...

she's a woman, from my state,
a militant...

We went to the same schools,
but at different times.

We were both imprisoned in the same jail,

I for a shorter time, of course.

And mostly,

she was there, for me,

bearing the brunt of it all.

It's okay, I managed to turn it on.

- Yes, before.
- I was arrested later.

- Then I went...
- You were arrested...

- Around Ibiúna.
- You were arrested in '68.

- Because of the Student Congress.
- Was it '68?

- Yes, in October.
- Right.

- I was arrested in January, in 1970.
- January '70.

One year after my first interview
with Dilma,

I took my mother to meet her...

as they had much in common, but never met.

Certain things for me are very difficult.

What happens is

that one can never...

be completely anonymous...

again.

There's a huge freedom in being anonymous.

Immense.

Which we had when we were in hiding.

That's the thing.

The immense feeling of freedom,
which I never had again.

- For a short time.
- For a short time.

Yes, but it's immense, isn't it?

When did you realize
Lula was choosing you?

No, I didn't want that!

It's my...

attachment...

to freedom.

But this was very well known.

And he insisted on it?

He doesn't speak.

He does politics as a fait accompli.
That's Lula.

Today he talks more.

MARISA LETÍCIA
FIRST LADY

Hey, Mr. President, Mrs. Marisa.

The last time we go out of the elevator.

Saying bye to the Palace

and going home, to my apartment

in S. Bernardo do Campo.

This is the last day of Lula
and his first lady Marisa in power

after serving two terms.

Once a first lady, always a first lady.

These images
and others that will come later

were shot by his official photographer,
Ricardo Stuckert.

I'll take a picture of you.

He was leaving office
with an 87% approval rating,

one of the highest
of any president in the world.

Take one of yourself.

Dilma! Dilma!

Today, looking back,

I realize the excitement of having elected
our first female president...

blinded me to something else
that is happening in this scene.

The precipice that exists between Dilma

and her tense vice-president.

Temer, on the right,

has his gestures controlled

as if he's moving inside a box.

He interlocks his fingers
and pulls his hands,

as if he wanted to separate them.

It was an arranged marriage.

Since it was the first time
Dilma had run for office,

she depended even more than Lula

on the alliance with the PMDB
to be able to govern.

The PMDB condition was for Temer,

a conservative politician
and the leader of the party,

to be vice-president.

When asked about the alliance,
Lula answered,

"If Jesus came to Brazil,

he would have to make an alliance
even with Judas."

I wonder if anyone else imagined
that this man

who had to go such a long way
to be in the picture...

five years later would want
to be in the picture without her.

But this isn't just a story of betrayal.

If the climate in the tropics
was in the peak of optimism,

in a few years,

the foundations of democracy itself
would begin to crack.

My grandmother filmed these images
of Brasília under construction.

A decade before, my grandfather
had started a construction company,

but he didn't participate
in the building of this city

fearing that the president would fall
before it was finished.

President Juscelino, who my mother,
this little girl with the ponytail,

saw briefly when he was governor
of her state,

dreamt Brasília as the capital
of his vision of a modern Brazil.

In the middle of the country,

they drew a city that during the day
would work happily,

in an atmosphere
of dignified monumentality.

An utopic city
that would house the dream of democracy.

At its heart,
the two houses of Congress.

The lower house looking up,

open to the desired of society,

and the upper house closed in,

meditating in deep thought.

But the perfect architecture
forgot a main ingredient of democracy:

the people,

who were ever more isolated from power.

Far from public pressure,

the political class perpetuated
an age-old system of corruption

that held everything together.

And that system remained untouched

decade after decade
until came the seismic shift.

JUNE, 2013

Power to the people
Power to the people

To make a new world!

In the current of the Arab Spring,

what begins as a small demonstration
against a rise in bus fare,

with a push of police repression,
the midia and social networks,

grows to become one of the largest
demonstrations in the nation's history.

As the streets suddenly awoke
after 20 years

with a series of mixed demands,

something in our social fabric
started to change,

giving birth to the deep division
that would rip us apart.

After ten years in power,

the red flags of the Worker's Party
no longer mobilize people's dreams.

They start to become the target.

The people united!
No political parties here!

The people united
No political parties here!

The people united!
No political parties here!

Democracy! Democracy!

From this moment on,
nothing would be the same.

But before I go forward,
I have to go back.

Just before these protests,

Dilma's popularity had reached
such a high peak

that she did a more radical move
than Lula had ever dared to.

She sacked PMDB politicians
from important government positions

and challenged the bankers
by reducing interest rates.

It's unacceptable that Brazil,

with one of the most solid,
profitable economic systems,

has one of the highest interest rates
in the world.

The financial sector has no means

of explaining this perverse logic.

But the economy starts to slow down

and the protests have a damaging effect
on the government popularity.

Research polls revealed that Dilma's
popularity dropped by 27 points

in these three weeks of protests

We are in desperate need

of more efficient ways
of fighting corruption.

Trying to regain credibility
for her government,

Dilma fast-tracks
a series of anti-corruption laws,

including provisions for a system
of plea bargaining,

that allow a major investigation to erupt.

A tsunami that would soon destabilize
the political system,

Operation Car Wash investigates Petrobras,

the giant national oil company

that even the NSA
made it a target for surveillance.

Soon, investigators unveil
a web of corruption

tying together Petrobras,
construction companies,

and the main political parties.

In each Petrobras contract

with each of its big suppliers,

and we're talking here
of billion-dollar contracts,

there was a fixed bribe

of one to three percent.

And this didn't happen once or twice,

it was systemic.

The man behind the operation

is a federal judge
from the South of Brazil.

Trained in the United States and inspired
by an Italian Mani Pulite investigation,

Sergio Moro learns how to use the media
in his favor.

HE SAVED THE YEAR!

And a significant part of the media

unquestioningly embraces his narrative.

Since Moro keeps suspects in jail
without trial

until they denounce
more important figures,

Car Wash soon becomes
Brazil's true-life crime thriller.

It's not a turning point
with state-run companies.

It didn't start with Lula.

- It's a tradition.
- So it has always...

It has always happened.

It's like quicksand.

Once in,
it's almost impossible to get out.

Slush funds became something
nobody saw as a crime.

A politician who says he didn't get
slush funds is lying.

Once the businessmen start talking,

politicians of several parties
begin to be arrested,

including members of the Workers' Party.

As the new election approaches,

many blame Dilma for not interfering
with the investigation.

A move that would lead to her downfall.

This is Aécio Neves,

grandson of a president
and Dilma's opposition candidate

during the 2014 election.

Our families have a link.

His mother married
my grandfather's cousin.

Behind the scenes,

a part of the construction companies
and the PMDB

switch their allegiance to Aécio
in the belief that his interests

were more aligned with their own.

But Dilma wins by a narrow margin.

It was the fourth time that his party
had lost a presidential election

to the Workers' Party.

And Aécio Neves
does not accept the results.

He asks for an election audit

and when the results don't change,

he starts lobbying for her impeachment.

We didn't lose the election
to a political party.

We lost it to a criminal organization

that installed itself
in the heart of the nation!

But ready yourselves!

Soon, we won't be the opposition.
We'll be the government!

Let's do it! The PSDB's the future!

Long live Brazil, long live the PSDB,

victory is ours!

I wonder if Aecio knew the dark forces
he would be awakening

by questioning the rules
of the democratic game.

ANNULMENT OF THE 2014 ELECTIONS
IMPEACHMENT NOW

LET'S TAKE TO THE STREETS ON THE 12TH
FOR THE SAKE OF BRAZIL

Right-wing groups begin to travel
amongst the social media algorithms,

galvanizing the public's
anti-corruption mood

and transforming it into an insurrection
against Dilma,

Lula and the Workers' Party.

And the media does its part

by broadcasting every detail
of the protests

and normalizing their aggressive aspects.

This is patriotism!

...locked in a cell, there are people
dressed as the ex-president.

After a global drop in commodity prices,

and a series of economic mistakes,

the country enters into recession.

Dilma then breaks her campaign promises

and implements an austerity program.

Unemployment rises to eight percent,

over four million Brazilians
cross into poverty,

and Dilma's approval rate
drops to nine percent.

THE END?

Fuck you, Dilma!

DECEMBER, 2015
IMPEACHMENT PROCESS ACCEPTED

And it is in this atmosphere

that the Congress accepts
the impeachment request against Dilma.

Today I received with indignation

the decision of the President
of the Lower House...

- Fuck you, Dilma, you crook!
- ...to accept the impeachment request

against a mandate

democratically given to me
by the Brazilian people.

The reasons for this request

are unfounded and inconsistent.

I have not committed any illicit acts.

There is no suspicion
of fiscal wrongdoing around me.

I have no offshore accounts.

But one more piece was missing
for the impeachment to take off.

For the climax of Car Wash,

Moro authorizes the police to detain Lula

and forces him to testify,

even though the former president
had never resisted questioning.

Suspecting Lula was involved
in the corruption scheme,

investigators look for evidence:

an apartment allegedly gifted to him

by a construction company
implicated in the Car Wash scandal.

Although there is no formal accusation,

this spectacle creates
an impression of guilt.

Take it easy! Take it easy!

Lula! Lula!

The police raided his office,

the house of his son

and his home.

12 DAYS LATER
PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE

So let me tell you, dear.

I just met with Dilma

and I'll be the new Chief of Staff.

Okay?

Well, I'll take office...

I'll take office...

next Tuesday.

My nomination's today,
but I take office on Tuesday.

Hello?

- Lula, listen.
- Sure, my dear.

I'm sending Messias with the papers
just in case.

Use it only in case of necessity.
It's a copy of your appointment.

- Alright?
- Okay.

That's it. Wait there, he's on his way.

Okay, I'm waiting.

- Okay. Bye, dear.
- Bye.

Today the crisis of Dilma's government

reached its peak.

Confidentiality was lifted

on the 24th phase
of Car Wash investigations

and ex-president Lula's conversations

were made public.

For some, this audio leak was proof

that Dilma was giving Lula
his ministerial papers

to grant him immunity
from arrest as a cabinet member.

For others,
proof that Moro was using the law

to take Lula out of the political game.

A tapped phone call

between President Dilma and Lula!

Your Honor speaks highly of the USA.

Imagine in the USA,

a Texas state judge

recording a call
between Clinton and Obama,

and releasing it at prime time

a few hours later.

You know the tapping was illegal

as you gave the order
to stop the wiretap at 11:12 a.m.

The recording was at 1:32 p.m.;

by 6 p.m. it was on Globo News.

Can we accept that?

Supreme Justice Minister Teori said,

"The reasons given by Judge Moro

were not enough
to justify those 'special measures'

taken actually for abusive reasons."

My decisions are open to criticism,

there's no problem with that.
It's freedom of speech.

But I can't be accused
of abuse of authority,

as my decisions have been approved

by the higher courts,

unless you're also accusing them.

Lula, it's no use crying!

You're in Moro's hands!

Lula, it's no use crying!

I'm for Sérgio Moro, do you know why?

Without Moro,

Lula wouldn't be so close
to going to jail.

BYE, DEAR
IN MORO WE TRUST

That's what'll make Brazil change
once and for all.

And when will it change?

First, impeachment. Then prison.

Then Brazil starts again.

Lock Lula up! Lock Lula up!

Moro! Moro!

Moro! Moro!

We demand the immediate ousting
of the government,

through the intervention
of our armed forces.

Fascists and Communists are the same shit!

Ironically, you bunch of deviants,

it's the military police
protecting you, you dumb shit!

Out with PT! Out with PT!

We're pro-freedom, and no one
is taking away our right to say so.

This is absurd!
They're shooting themselves in the foot!

These were the first images I filmed.

By deafness or blindness,
it was my first contact with this unrest.

It left me asking, "What has shifted
so that two protesters

have to be removed from an act

just because they were wearing
the color red?"

- Why are you applauding?
- 'Cause he's been arrested.

- Who?
- I don't know, someone from PT.

Why was he arrested?

Cause he's fighting
for something we don't want.

From this point on,

the country divided
into two irreconcilable parts.

There will be no coup!

This is the other side.

Fifty-four million votes!

Respect that! There won't be a coup!

Today I can pay
for English classes for my kids.

My mom couldn't afford
to let me go to school!

I can't read or write,
but I can pay for my kids to study!

I don't want Aécio voters to like me.

What I want is for us to learn

how to live in a civilized way
with our differences.

Democracy is the only possibility we have

of making a government
where the people participate!

Lula, warrior of the Brazilian people!

Lula, warrior of the Brazilian people!

I was moved, Dilma...

I've been to many events,

but the people were so happy today.

I had to speak from both sides,

first on one side of the truck,
then the other.

We need to do more rallies.

It was wonderful, you can sleep soundly.

Sleep well. The sleep of the just.

You're being the victim
of an unprecedented sabotage.

In a major turnaround today,

the Supreme Court judge
issued an injunction

suspending the nomination
of Lula as Chief of Staff.

The judge sees the intent
by the former president

to obstruct investigations against him
in Operation Car Wash.

The snakes that seized power...

Snake!

...are taking advantage

of human weaknesses

to perpetuate themselves.

Do we want to serve a snake?

No!

Brazil's not the Snake Republic.

This woman on stage, Janaina Paschoal,

is a lawyer and one of the authors
of the impeachment request against Dilma.

"Janaina, God doesn't give snakes wings."

And I say to him,

"Father, sometimes a snake grows wings.

When that happens,

God sends legions

to cut the snake's wings!"

Lula must be arrested, that dirty crook.

The only one left.

Against fiscal pedaling,
and Dilma's electoral maneuvers.

BYE, DEAR

She ruined Brazil, man!

Nobody proved she stole.

- Dilma was a mother to these guys.
- Not to me.

Dilma was a mother to all here,
and they're trashing her.

Military intervention
is the medicine for this country.

He's a lot older

and recalls that in the time
of the dictatorship,

things were a lot better.

Generals, where are you?

Military intervention is the remedy.

Your relatives weren't killed
during the dictatorship.

- Were yours?
- I know people who lost friends!

They didn't.
That's what they want you to believe.

You've no idea what it was like!

This government that wants to take over
belongs to the elite, Globo TV,

businessmen, bankers,
landowners, Americans,

who want the Amazon and Petrobras oil,

rich Europeans...

Brazilians had some chance.

Dilma and PT left us the crumbs.

Now we won't even have that.

It was the first time
in more than 20 years

that the country was paying attention
to what was happening in Congress.

Our destiny was being decided
behind closed doors

by 600 politicians
I knew almost nothing about.

After this commission,
the Lower House would vote

on whether to approve
the impeachment motion.

Then the final trial would take place
in the Senate.

...it isn't about the so-called
creative accounting decrees only.

Unemployment, recession,

cuts in social programs,

inflation, rise in prices,

loss of buying power...

All I could hear was, on one side,

how Dilma was responsible
for all the Country's problems

and, on the other,

how her offense did not constitute
an impeachable crime.

What's wanted is impeachment.
It matters little

if I rip up the Constitution
or violate democracy.

I maintain

that in a country historically marked,
maybe since its discovery,

by structural and systemic corruption,

it's absurd...

that a legitimately elected president

be deposed for an accounting issue

that's been accepted by the courts

without her being accused
in the process

of stealing one cent.

That's why this impeachment process

shouldn't be called impeachment.

If it does happen,
it should be called a coup.

The coup of April 2016.

At this moment,
almost half of Brazilians, including me,

thought that Dilma
was being impeached for corruption.

After hours inside this commission,

I understood that she was being accused
of dodgy accounting.

She had delayed the transfer
of funds to public banks,

in a kind of creative accounting
to cover budget gaps.

The debate was not
whether the government had done it...

because it had,

and to a higher degree
than all Governments before hers...

but whether this was a reasonable cause
to impeach a president.

I don't think impeachment
should be an electoral tool.

This seems to be the case here.

An unfounded impeachment

borders on a coup.

Brazil is not a banana republic
that can remove a president

just because he's not popular.

Those who regret their vote
have to make up for it next time.

That's the logic of politics.

But nine months later,

the president of the Lower House,
Eduardo Cunha, would change his mind.

Cunha allegedly helped finance
the campaigns of dozens of congressmen,

forming a type of private army

that he mobilized to make
his interests prevail.

He was investigated for hiding millions
of dollars in bribes in a Swiss bank,

and in a company called Jesus.com.

Feeling targeted, he had decided
to break with the government.

The government doesn't swallow me.
It has a personal hatred of me.

I'll ask in the PMDB assembly

that they break with the government,
that they leave the government

and I, as of now,

am breaking with the government.

Then, he asks Dilma and the Workers' Party
to help save his mandate in Congress.

After weeks of debate,

the Workers' Party representatives
decide to vote against him.

And, in retaliation,

he immediately opens
impeachment proceedings against Dilma.

Many get disappointed with PT
after its alliance with PMDB.

Especially after Cunha enters the game.

Do you regret that?

As for the disappointment:

to govern,
you need a majority in Congress.

Those disappointed must ask,

"Why didn't we elect our congressmen?

Leaving it so

that for a 2/3 majority in Congress,

20 parties were needed."

Our mistake was not realizing

that right-wing supremacy was growing.

The right-wing wasn't so strong
on my re-election in 2014,

when we made the alliance with PMDB.

When does it assert itself? When Cunha...

Because he's the boss, not Temer.

When Cunha gets elected president
of the Lower House.

He arranges the whole structure,

he sets up the coup,
he sets up the siege.

I have to tell you,

I didn't govern in 2015.

In your opinion,
what were Dilma's greatest mistakes?

She never bonded.

There are congressmen from PT who claim...
Just yesterday, I met

with left-wing congressmen.

They said Dilma never gave them a hug,
never shook their hands.

So Dilma's being removed because

she didn't give enough hugs?

- No, not hugs.
- In a way.

For her coldness, her political ineptness.

Yeah.

I can also say that Dilma was honest.

But a good cook

is not one who cooks to her own taste.

She cooks to please those
who will be eating.

She doesn't treat people well,
but this is secondary.

If the economy was well,
this wouldn't matter.

- So the main reason is the economy?
- Of course.

She fought with Congress, the Judiciary,

the Treasury.

She fought with the market,
she fought with her voters.

When do you think starts
the fall of Dilma's government?

In 2013,

Dilma spoke on Labor Day
saying that the rich,

the bankers
would have to pay for the crisis.

She poked the bear with a short stick.

The elites then started to hammer away
at Dilma's popularity.

The economic indicators began changing.

I haven't spoken to him since,
so I don't know.

We'll release a statement so...

This is Petra,
she's making a documentary...

Would you give us an interview?

We'll make an appointment, okay?

Unfortunately,
Aécio never gave me this interview.

Hello, my man. Yesterday,
I met with congressmen all day long,

things are really bad.

Very bad.
Bad for the Impeachment Commission,

Bad for the Lower House vote. You know.

It's not bad with the enemies.
It's bad with the allies.

Did she or didn't she?
Was she doing budget maneuvers or not?

Is it a crime or isn't it? You know?

So I said, look, our economists
will forever defend

her and theirs will attack her.

Her lawyers defending her
and the prosecutors accusing her.

One senator attacking, and the other...

Why don't they create
an International Commission?

With specialists in public funds?

And ask for an official report?

Because this is like religion.

It's endless; Dilma will die
saying she didn't commit crimes

and Aécio will die saying she did.

The pro-impeachment protesters
will be on this side, and the...

Over there.

And the anti-impeachment protesters
on that side.

The right-wing will be on the right side
and the left-wing on the left?

I wouldn't put it that way,

it depends on the point of reference.

My whole family would be
on the right side of this wall...

were it not for what happened in 1964.

The government had just declared

that it would redistribute the land
to the people.

My mother's family entered into despair

and prepared their boxes
to move to California

to escape the communist threat.

But to their relief,
the military took power

backed by the United States
and celebrated by the media.

On the other side of the city,

my father left to the United States
with a one way ticket.

The protests against the Vietnam War

were the first spark to awaken him.

Then, a small bookstore in the village

filled with books of Marx and Erich Fromm.

Two years later,

he comes back
and my mother falls in love with him.

First with him,
and then with the revolution.

And that coup that was supposed
to last one year

ended up lasting more than 20.

I don't know how this should be told.

The fact is that,
during the dictatorship...

while my parents were in hiding

and their friends
were being tortured and killed...

the company my grandfather co-founded

grew to be one of the biggest in Brazil.

I see that the story of this crisis,
of this wall,

runs directly through my family.

On one side, it's my grandparents
and the establishment they were part of.

On the other,

it's the story of my parents
and the left they dreamt of,

and which is crumbling.

But it is also the story
of a broken country that we're inheriting.

Impeachment! Impeachment!

APRIL 17, 2016
IMPEACHMENT VOTING IN THE LOWER HOUSE

Bye, dear!

The time is coming

The day is starting

And Dilma's leaving

BYE, DEAR

Democracy!

Democracy!

- Impeachment!
- Democracy!

- Impeachment!
- Democracy!

Look after our Brazil.

Look after our Brazil.

Oh, Lord,
see us through this bleak moment...

"...the floors shall be full of wheat,

and the vats shall overflow
with new wine and oil.

And I will restore to you the years
that the locust hath eaten,

the canker-worm and the palmer-worm..."

"...the waters shall overflow..."

That's why, Mr. President,

for the people of my state,
for Rio and Brazil,

I vote "yes" for the impeachment.

In the name of my two kids,
along with my wife,

we form the family in Brazil

that these crooks want to destroy

with a proposition
to change children's gender

and learn about sex at six years old...

...I vote "yes"!

For all my family...

...for my family...

...for my family...

I'd like to thank my aunt,
who took care of me when I was little.

For the Evangelical people
from all over the nation!

For God's people,

I vote "yes."

Considering that our President
didn't commit any crimes,

unlike most here under investigation,

who shame this house...

In the name of those
who hunger for justice...

I'm embarrassed to participate
in this hoax,

this indirect election

conducted by a thief,

urged by a traitor and conspirator,

supported by torturers, cowards,

political illiterates and sell-outs.

This sexist hoax.

I vote "no" to the coup,
and sleep on it, you bastards!

Congressman Eduardo Cunha,
how do you vote?

May God have mercy on this nation.

I vote "yes."

A show trial was established!

With an inquisitor at its head,
Eduardo Cunha.

You're a gangster.

I vote "no"!

Congressman Glauber Braga...

Dilma! You're an embarrassment!

Embarrassment! "Yes!"

What an honor destiny reserved for me

to use my voice

as a cry of hope
for millions of Brazilians.

That's why I say to Brazil:
"Yes" to the future!

Voted "yes": 367 congressmen.

The proceedings against the President

are now authorized

for crimes of responsibility.

Many representatives are leaving in tears.

- Good job, Mr. President.
- Congratulations, Cunha!

Goodbye, PT! Goodbye, PT!

Goodbye, PT! Goodbye, PT!

How did you watch the Lower House vote?

- Calmly.
- Calmly.

- In the Presidential Residence?
- Yes...the Alvorada.

Calm on the outside.

With a great indignation.

How can we appear like this to the world?

What will they think of us?
I felt ashamed.

- And the worst...
- I felt both things.

The worst were the congressmen coming
to the Presidential Residence that morning

saying, "Count on me to turn this around!"

- That's the part of the betrayal...
- It's deplorable.

- It's deplorable.
- Who did this?

Oh, my...

This process is Kafkaesque
in the sense of The Castle.

- The Trial.
- Right, Kafka's The Trial.

It's Josef K.

So you felt like Josef K?

But I'm Josef K. in person!

And I'm Josef K.'s lawyer.

And I'm lucky, because Josef K.
didn't have a lawyer...

He didn't, poor guy, he was alone.

I at least have this luck,
of being Josef K. with a lawyer!

For me, the face of Brazil changed
the night of this vote.

My face.

The face of this Congress.

This is Jair Messias Bolsonaro,

a retired army captain

who had just declared
he would run for president.

They lost in 1964.

They lost now, in 2016.

Against communism...

Exalting the dictatorship's
most infamous torturer and assassin.

In memory of Colonel
Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra,

Dilma Rousseff's greatest terror!

I have plans for 2018.

- I'm taking it seriously. Yes.
- Presidential elections?

I've eight percent in the polls.

If Datafolha gives me eight percent,
I must have 24 percent.

Agribusiness loves me when I say,

"You farm guys will have your rifles."

The welcoming card
for the Landless Movement

is a loaded gun.

If you'd like a gun at home,

you'll have it!

That's how violence is fought!

The language that bums understand
is violence.

They call me rude, homophobic,
fascist, etc...

I'm a hero.

I get stronger every day
in the public opinion.

If you want, come on in.
I'm just changing my clothes.

OK? This is my office.

These are...

our last presidents.

Castelo Branco,
Costa e Silva, Médici,

who ended the Araguaia guerilla...

or we'd have a FARC
in the center of Brazil. Geisel...

Who the left hates, right?

'Cause criminals then
got what they deserved.

A part of my family
decided to vote for him.

In Bolsonaro's cosmology,

militants like my parents
should have been killed.

It was the face of a country

that had never punished the crimes
committed under military rule.

A country that has been shaped by slavery,

privilege and coups.

Our democracy was founded on forgetting.

Congratulations!

My stuff!

- Get your hands off of him!
- He didn't do anything!

- Leave him alone!
- Well done, you!

Well done, you!

After the lower house vote,

the Senate suspends Dilma for 112 days

until her final trial.

As he substitutes
the first female president,

Temer takes office as interim President
and names a new cabinet

of all white males.

God save the President!

- Hey, braggart!
- There's your spotlight.

You got your screentime.

What we want to do with Brazil

is a religious act.

An act of reconnecting
all of Brazilian society

with the fundamental values

of our country.

This night,
the rules of the palace were suspended.

It was a feast.

The fauna of the plateau
changed radically in a few hours.

Temer's arrival filled the corridors

with right-wing conservatives
of the Congress,

defenders of the Bible,
the bullet and the bull.

Not now.

These men seized the saloon with thirst

after years
of having to ask for permission to enter.

Of course there were also those
who never left.

At a party in Bandeirantes Palace,

a politician asked
the owner of a company,

"What are you doing here?"

And the owner answered, "I am always here.

You politicians are the ones who change."

After a few hours filming in the Alvorada,

I find two plaques,

placed on each side of the palace.

On one side,

a plaque placed during the term
of Fernando Collor de Melo...

a right-wing president...

saying that this palace
was renovated thanks to the generosity

of these companies.

And on the other,

a plaque placed during the term of Lula...

a left-wing president.

Andrade Gutierrez

is the name of the company
my grandfather cofounded in 1947.

In 2015,

the president and several executives
of the company went to prison,

as well as from most
construction companies.

The influence of money in politics

was the secret that all knew

and none addressed effectively.

Until Car Wash came.

It was painful to see a party we elected
on the promise of transforming the system

become more and more cemented
within a structure of campaign financing

designed to make change almost impossible.

Mom, how did you feel

when they began to reveal
the corruption schemes

between the government
and construction companies?

Corruption schemes
between the government and companies

is the common rule
in the history of Brazil.

What's new is...

Car Wash, that imprisons
and strikes plea bargains

with politicians and businessmen,

including executives linked to my family.

This was the great novelty.

It never happened before in this country.

I even thought it could be effective.

But it started getting highly partisan.

Above all,

it started looking like
a strategy of the elite

to eliminate the threat of the left.

Take out Lula, overthrow Dilma,
do away with PT.

Even if...

at the cost of sacrificing
a part of the elite:

the contractors.

So, cut off that arm
and preserve the rest.

The Workers' Party, born contesting
all this vertical, bureaucratic,

corrupt form of doing politics,

as it kept growing and dealing with power,

it lost something, Petra,
very important to us.

That is, "One foot out, one foot in."

The foot on the outside keeps connected

to the social struggles,

knowing that in capitalism, you only get
your rights by mobilizing and fighting.

The inside foot
is being inside the institution,

seeking to change it.

But we grew,
and the outside foot was slowly forgotten.

We started depending too much
on governing through Congress.

We thought we'd be friends
with the big fish, effortlessly.

That the campaign financing
was a natural thing.

We didn't make the political reform

necessary to end the curse
of business campaign financing.

There lies the mother of corruption.

The guy's a candidate,
he needs the company,

it hands him money.
Then the company asks for something,

and he thinks,
"If I don't do as they say,

I won't have money
for the next campaign."

The party started doing
what the others did.

Forgetting that the treatment
by these "houses of justice"

would be totally different
for us in relation to them.

After only 11 days
of Temer's interim government,

an unknown party leaks new audio

shedding light on what had been going on
in the shadows of the Republic.

In the conversation,

recorded weeks before
the first impeachment vote,

Temer's right hand man,
Senator Romero Jucá,

was recorded discussing
Operation Car Wash

with a former oil executive.

Romero, the depositions are heating up,
there's no escaping...

They're gonna...Brazil will be doomed.

There will be no one left.

We need a way out, it's dangerous.

- Moro has become the Tower of London.
- Exactly.

- He brings in the poor guy to confess.
- To confess.

From what I've heard,

he wants to get you. Us.

We've gotta solve this shit.

We've gotta change the government
to stop the bleeding.

It has to be something political and fast.

Man, the easiest solution
is to put Michel Temer.

Only the Senate President is against this.

It's a deal to put in Michel

- in a great national pact...
- With the Supreme Court...

With everyone. So it all stops.

Again.

It's a deal to put in Michel

- in a great national pact...
- With the Supreme Court...

With everyone. So it all stops.

- So it stops here.
- So it all stops.

It's a bomb exploding in the second week
of Temer's government...

The conversations happened
a few weeks before the vote

in which the Lower House opened

an impeachment process
against President Dilma.

With the motivation
of the impeachment exposed,

I thought the process could fall apart.

- Coup plotter! Coup plotter!
- Crook!

You belong in jail!

If Temer does take office
by the Senate's decision,

his government will better,
not worsen, people's lives.

How was your meeting
with Vice-President Temer this morning?

We had another conversation.

The President spoke

in further detail
of his plans for a state reform,

shutting down ministries...

Well, the most questionable element
in this whole process

is whether or not
this impeachment procedure

is being conducted
in the interest of the country,

since more than half of the members
of both houses of Congress

are either under investigation
or have been charged

for crimes that include fraud, slavery,

and even homicide.

AUGUST 29, 2016
FINAL IMPEACHMENT TRIAL IN THE SENATE

To what extent do you
and your government

feel sincerely responsible

for this recession,
for the 12 million unemployed,

the 60 million people in debt,

and the five percent loss in income
of the Brazilian workers?

If one of your arguments to justify
the pedaling,

or the fiscal accounting fraud,

is the drop in revenues,

that too is prohibited in our country.

By your own decision,

when hiding data, numbers, facts,

you covered up a terrible reality.

Until the day when truth surfaced.

The budget maneuvering was done
not out of love for the poor,

the assistance programs,
nor love for the Bolsa Família program.

It was to cover up the damage
to the national bank.

I apologize for, though I didn't mean to,

I caused her suffering.

And I ask her to...

one day...

understand...

that I did this
thinking also of her grandchildren.

I'm here to look directly in the eyes
of Your Excellencies,

and to say with the serenity
of those with nothing to hide,

I haven't committed the crimes

I'm unfairly and arbitrarily accused of.

It's not legitimate,
as my accusers would like,

to remove a chief of government

because they don't agree
with their body of work.

The ones to do so are the people,

and only the people, at the polls.

Now,

the Constitution is invoked

so the world of appearances
hypocritically conceals

the world of facts.

We will all be judged by history.

Twice, I saw up close the face of death.

when I was tortured...

When I was tortured

for successive days,

subjected to abuse that made us doubt

humanity and the very meaning of life.

And when a serious,
extremely painful illness

could have shortened my life.

Today,

I fear only the death of democracy.

PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE

Hey! Hold on a second, honey.
These boxes...

Did you expect this to happen?

Well, the way things were going,

yes, we did.

Things...

I think there's still a lot more
to come out.

A lot more dirt.

It would be easy if all that's happened
could be cleaned

with a cloth and a bucket of water.
But unfortunately there's no way.

So many filthy things.

These things always happen in politics.
If you ask me...

she must have deserved it

or the whole population wouldn't be
thinking this way.

But I don't think anyone's clean.

The people chose her.

I think new elections
would be the best thing.

I'm not sure
she was taken out by the people.

It wasn't democratic,
or a choice by voters.

Actually, there is no democracy.

I don't think so.

Our right to vote...

I don't think it exists.

After the impeachment,

all eyes turn
to the next presidential election.

Lula declares
he will run for president again.

Do you have any regrets?

I regret a lot of things, my dear.

But my greatest regret
is not having done more.

Not having presented to Congress
when I was President

the new media regulations.

Nine families run
the entire media in Brazil.

And we have centuries of prejudice,
you know?

Centuries of domination,

from the plantation masters
and slaves being so mistreated.

To change...

all that...

is very tough.

If...And it doesn't always work.

But when there's a revolution,

half die in battle, half run away,

and then you think you can do it all.
In many countries, this was possible.

But to do it the way we did,

with democracy, freedom of the press,

with the right to strike,
the right to protest,

with Congress working freely?

That's much harder,
but it's also more rewarding.

Because...

we learn...

what the values of democracy are.

Getting to the top of the hierarchy
of the criminal organization,

today the Prosecutor's Office

accuses Mr. Luis Inácio Lula da Silva

of being the mastermind
of the corruption scheme

identified in Car Wash.

And only two weeks after the impeachment,

prosecutors present their accusation
in a PowerPoint file

broadcasted live on TV.

One of the 14 arguments presented

is that Lula, as President,
had had the power to make decisions

and that he was close to several people
convicted in Car Wash.

The actual accusation, though,
filed after two years of investigation,

was that Lula had received an apartment
from a construction company.

We don't have clear proof of Lula's
legal ownership of the apartment.

The fact that he doesn't appear
as the owner

of the Guarujá triplex apartment

is a way of hiding the actual ownership.

The fact that there is no evidence
that he is the owner of the apartment

is considered proof
of his attempt to hide it,

and this proof is then used as evidence
that he is the mastermind of the scheme.

I wish the investigation had convinced me
whether he was guilty or innocent,

but instead, I was seeing prosecutors
making a spectacle to present their case.

FEBRUARY, 2017
STEELWORKERS' UNION, SÃO PAULO

Lula's wife, Marisa,

is also indicted in the accusation
about the apartment.

Four months later,
she suffers a stroke and dies.

Hold to God's unchanging hand and go

Hold to God's unchanging hand and go

Hold to God's unchanging hand

Hold to God's unchanging hand

He shall guide you out of the dark

The former president
has his last chance to defend himself

in the case
of the Guarujá triplex apartment.

Since Car Wash began,

Sérgio Moro and Lula will meet
face to face for the first time.

It's improper that the deposition
of a defendant to a federal judge

within legal proceedings

be transformed into this carnival.

"The confrontation of the century."

FIRST FACE TO FACE MEETING
MORO VS LULA

Did you ever visit

the triplex apartment 164-A
of the Solaris Condominium?

Yes, in 2014.

- How many times did you go there?
- Once.

I saw 500 flaws in it,

and never again did I talk to Leo
about the apartment.

Did you or your wife request
any sort of renovation for this apartment?

- No.
- No?

As I consider this lawsuit illegitimate

and the accusation a farce,

I'm here out of respect for the law

and our Constitution,

but with many reservations regarding

the Car Wash prosecutors.

I see. But this is your opportunity
to defend yourself

and clarify these matters, right?

Some directors of contractors

admitted there was a criminal scheme
within Petrobras

to pay a bribe for large contracts.

You had no knowledge
of any of the crimes committed

- by the directors of Petrobras?
- No.

Mr. Ex-President...

you say you were not responsible
and had no knowledge.

Could there have been any slips?

What do you think happened in this case?

Dr. Moro, do you feel responsible

for the destruction
of Brazil's civil construction industry

by Car Wash?

I'm sure you don't.

Do you find
that what's harmed these companies

is corruption, or the fight against it?

The method of fighting corruption.

I'm being judged
because of a PowerPoint built on lies.

I'd expect that in a hearing such as this,
the Prosecutor's Office

would present...

the property deed.

"Lula says it's not his,
but here's the legal document,

he paid for it, there's the deed."

What I want is for the innuendos to stop

and that I be told
what crime I've committed!

Prison for the thief!

Jail!

Two months later, Moro sentences Lula
to nine and a half years in prison.

Robber of Petrobras!

He should die in prison!

Long live Moro!

His case reaches the court of appeals

at a faster speed than any other process
of Car Wash.

And there his sentence is increased
to 12 years.

PREVENT LULA'S ARREST
DEFEAT THE COUP

I'm afraid I have to say

that Brazil has a primitive system

based on the Spanish Inquisition

that was taken into Portugal and was...

Then, in the 19th century,
you inherited it.

I don't think the case against Lula

would get off the ground
in England or Europe,

and the extraordinary thing

about Brazil's legal system

is that your prosecutors are judges.

An investigating judge, like judge Moro,

who targets the suspect, orders...

their telephones to be tapped,
their houses to be searched.

And then...

he charges them
and turns into the trial judge.

The most important right of a defendant

is the right to an impartial judge.

Behind the curtain of public appearances,

audio leaks kept reminding me

of a story more reminiscent
of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

If the first leak echoed the conspiracy
of the senators to stab Caesar

because he had become too powerful...

the second reminded me
of the final act of the play,

when Brutus cannot sleep,
haunted by Caesar's ghost.

At midnight,

speaking to the owner
of the world's largest meat company,

Temer confesses
that he cannot live in the palace.

Aren't you moving to the Palace?

I did. I stayed a week. I couldn't sleep.

- There must be ghosts.
- Yes, there must be.

But the conversation reveals more
than just Temer's superstition.

He is allegedly heard encouraging
hush money payments

to buy Cunha's silence.

I want to hear you, Mr. President.

How is your situation with Eduardo Cunha?

Cunha decided to harass me...

Let me tell you,

within my reach,

I did everything I could...

zeroed it all out.

I'm on good terms with Cunha.

- This has to be mainteined, okay?
- Every month...

Cunha's silence
was in Temer's close interest.

A few months earlier,

Cunha had been sentenced
to 15 years in jail,

and could sign a plea bargain
denouncing Temer.

But in the end he didn't.

Temer also asked Joesley
for another favor.

In these images,

we see Temer's close aide
carrying a suitcase

with 500,000 reais,

which investigators believed to be
the first of a series of weekly payments

that would amount to 38 million reais.

Aécio was also recorded

allegedly arranging

who would pick up his payment
of two million reais from Joesley Batista.

She told me two million,
to deal with lawyers...

Let's see, you go to my place or...

Fred.

It has to be someone we'll kill
before he makes a plea bargain.

Again.

It has to be someone we'll kill
before he makes a plea bargain.

Thanks to his parliamentary immunity

and a little help
from his fellow senators,

Aécio preserves his mandate
and his freedom.

And the same Congress that was so vocal
against corruption

when voting for Dilma's impeachment,

suddenly changed its tone

when voting
whether Temer should be investigated.

We've come to the decisive moment

when each of us

will vote before the Brazilian people.

May the voting begin.

An investigation is needed,
but it's not urgent!

Not that this is to be an ode

to criminality.

A country which looks to the future

doesn't change presidents
like it changes clothes.

Putting an interim government
inside a provisional government...

is not good for Brazil at this moment.

It's not good for Brazil
to keep shifting presidents.

I vote "yes" to archive.

Result. For: 263.

Against: 227.

The matter will be archived,
and the decision

not to authorize an investigation
of President Temer

will be communicated to the Supreme Court.

Fragile democracies have one advantage
over solid ones:

they know when they're over.

Generals close the Congress,

occupy the TV stations,

and everyone knows what happened.

But democracies can also end slowly.

This vote was said to have cost
four billion reais in amendments

so that congressmen would shield
the president from prosecution.

The fact that 80% of the population
wanted Temer to be investigated

didn't bother the politicians

neither the stock markets
that celebrated the results.

Temer was delivering
almost all they had asked for.

Auctioning the country's oil reserves
to foreign companies,

weakening laws that prohibited slave labor

and approving austerity measures
that would brutally hurt the poor.

One can have different opinions
on legal issues.

What seems wrong to me
is for one side of the political dispute

to have the power
to turn institutions on and off

according to their own interests.

A blatant exercise of power...

SENATE PRESIDENTS

...that gave me the nauseous feeling
that our democracy

was very sick.

PROTESTS AGAINST TEMER

Coupists! Fascists! You shall not pass!

Out with Temer! Out with Temer!

Military police!

We need to stop the repression!

This car needs to move!

Who said it's normal

Americans taking over our oil?

Who said it's normal...

Six months before the election,
Lula leads with 31% of vote intentions,

followed by Bolsonaro with 15%.

A good Workers' Party person is one
without a mandate, no political office,

is one living in Cuba.

Who guarantees our democracy is the army,

and we always had the army
for democracy and freedom.

In the public opinion,

Bolsonaro seems little by little
to seize the space occupied by Moro

as the new redeemer.

And despite
his anti-democratic statements,

a significant part of the elite

starts to think of him
as the best alternative

to defend the interests of the market.

On April 4th,

the Supreme Court meets
to come to a final decision

on whether Lula is allowed to remain free

until he exhausts his appeals.

At 1:00 a.m., by six votes to five,

Lula's appeal is denied.

And the next day,

Judge Moro issues an order
for Lula to turn himself into prison

within 24 hours.

You're gonna meet the President.

- Guys, hey!
- You got your picture, let's go.

Many people are arguing

for him not to turn himself in.

It was too quick, Marlene, come on!

What about this battery of lawyers?
It shouldn't have been that quick.

Lawyers can't do much about it.

Okay?

I knew...

the coup wouldn't end
until they'd arrested me.

Because Dilma's impeachment

was a way of getting to me.

It made no sense to impeach Dilma...

and let me come back four years later.

I'm practically under house arrest here,

because I can't leave.

The union is my guarantee

that they won't arrest me. So I'm...

destined to spend the night on the floor.

The deadline established by Moro
for Lula to turn himself in has ended

to serve prison time
for the triplex apartment charges...

As I went home, I heard fireworks
celebrating Lula's imminent arrest.

They made me think of a quote.

"There's class warfare alright,"
said Warren Buffett,

one of the richest men in the world.

"But it's my class, the rich class,

that's making war,

and we're winning."

It's a little high, Mr. President,
146 over 90.

Funny, I usually don't have
blood pressure above 130.

Lula, warrior of the Brazilian people!

Lula, warrior of the Brazilian people!

Here are the people, not afraid to fight!

Don't turn yourself in!

Don't turn yourself in!

We now have a delicate job to do.

They...

ordered my arrest.

And let me tell you something:

I'm going to obey this order of theirs.

I'm going to do so because
I want to transfer responsibility.

They think everything
that's going on in this country

is because of me.

If I didn't believe in justice,

I wouldn't have founded a political party.

I would've proposed
a revolution in this country.

But I believe in justice!

A fair justice system,

where verdicts are based
on the evidence presented.

It's no use trying to stop me
from traveling around this country,

because there are millions of Lulas,
Boulos, Manuelas, and Dilma Rousseffs

to do it for me.

There's no use in trying to stop my ideas.

They're already in the air,
and you can't imprison them!

There's no point
in trying to stop my dreams,

because when I stop dreaming,

I'll be dreaming
through your minds and dreams!

There's no point in thinking
everything's going to stop

the day Lula has a heart attack.

That's nonsense!

Because my heart will be beating
through yours,

and there are millions of hearts!

The powerful

can kill one, two, or a hundred roses.

But they'll never stop
the arrival of spring

and our fight is in search of spring!

Circle in, circle in
Don't let them jail him!

Circle in, circle in
Don't let them jail him!

Circle in, circle in
Don't let them jail him!

Circle in, circle in
Don't let them jail him!

Circle in, circle in
Don't let them jail him!

Don't turn yourself in!

...the result of the last 48 hours
of negotiations

between Lula's representatives
and the Federal Police.

When all seemed settled,
his supporters prevented him from leaving.

Protesters have occupied
all possible exits.

Lula left the union,

but instead of getting in the car,

he's coming out walking.

Let's calm down, alright?

Mr. President!

Bye-bye, dear.

We're right behind you
in the motorcade with the guys.

Mr. President, let me give you a kiss.

- Where's Cris?
- Zanin.

Cristiano Zanin will be with him.
The lawyer.

Goodbye, Mr. President.

Careful there.

FORMER PRESIDENT LULA
IS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY TO CURITIBA

It's fucking Bolsonaro!

6 MONTHS LATER
BOLSONARO IS ELECTED PRESIDENT

The red criminals

will be banned from our country.

#BOLSOLEGEND
YOU'D BETTER GET USED TO JAIR!

We're the majority.

Together, we'll build a new nation.

DIE HARD
BOLSONARO LEGEND

A Greek writer said
that democracy is only working

when the rich feel threatened.

Otherwise, oligarchy takes over.

From father to son, from son to grandson,

from grandson to great-grandson
and so successively.

We are a republic of families.

Some control the media,

others control the banks.

They own the sand, the cement,
the rock and the iron.

And all so often

it happens
that they get tired of democracy,

of its rule of law.

How do we deal with the pain
of being thrown into a future

that looks as bleak as our darkest past?

What do we do
when the mask of civility falls

and what appears

is an ever more haunting
image of ourselves?

Where do we gather the strength
to walk through the ruins

and start anew?

JUDGE SÉRGIO MORO IS NAMED
BOLSONARO'S JUSTICE MINISTER.

LULA REMAINS IN PRISON.

WE THANK THE COUNTLESS PEOPLE

WE INTERVIEWED ON THE STREETS
AND NOT MENTIONED HERE,

WITHOUT WHOM THIS FILM
COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE.

Subtitle translation by: Othelo Sabbag