Brazil: Tropicalist revolution

A documentary directed by Dominique Dreyfus, Yves Billon.

Synopsis

Brazil­ian music has always been a wit­ness of its time. Yet, the Trop­i­cal­ist move­ment, which was born at the end of the 60’s, was both a wit­ness of con­tem­po­rary his­tory and one of its dri­ving force. This short lived explo­sion, which shook the coun­try between Novem­ber 1967 and Decem­ber 68, shat­tered the basis of Brazil­ian music.

Trop­i­cal­ism trig­gered a rev­o­lu­tion within the con­cepts of morals, ways of think­ing and even the very idea of Brazil­ian iden­tity. These upheavals have marked Brazil­ian national cul­ture for ever.