The film accompanies the investigation of the historian Sidney Aguilar after the discovery of bricks marked with Nazi swastikas in the interior of São Paulo. They then discover a horrifying fact that during the 1930s, fifty black and mullato boys were taken from an orphanage in Rio de Janeiro to the farm where the bricks were found. There they were identified by numbers and were submitted to slave labour by a family that was part of the political and economic elite of the country and who did not hide their Nazi sympathizing ideals.
Direction
Restrained hand lets horror speak without sensationalism.
Writing
Aguilar's dogged investigation unfolds like a thriller.
Director
Belisario Franca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brazil's myth of 'racial democracy'—the idea racism doesn't exist there—makes this documented Nazi slavery particularly explosive. The film functions as deliberate counter-propaganda.
The farm's location in São Paulo's interior wasn't random; German immigration there was state-sponsored and politically protected, creating networks that outlasted the war itself.
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