Four Days in September

“Their goal: freedom. Their only hope: an international incident. Their target: the American ambassador.”

Fernando (Pedro Cardoso) is a journalist who joins the armed group MR8 in the late sixties, wanting to fight the military dictatorship ruling Brazil. When his friend César is captured after a bank robbery, he and his comrades take the American ambassador, Charles Burke Elbrick (Alan Arkin), and demand fifteen political prisoners. Bruno Barreto keeps the kidnappers and their hostage in one house, where each of them has to decide what to make of the other.