Brazil War: The Truth about The Paraguayan War
1987 · 79 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 46 VOTES · DIR. Sylvio Back
Overview
Between 1864 and 1870, South America was the scene of the biggest and bloodiest armed conflict of the century, known as the ""Paraguay War,"" or ""Big War,"" for Paraguayans. Mixing reality and fiction, the documentary discusses this ""draft"" of World War I, which involved Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, decimating around one million people.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,019 lines
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00:00:02 When Don Carlos Antonio, father of the "mariscal" Solano Lopez...
00:04:27 Getting ready to stop!
00:07:49 The pictures shown here are but fantasies.
00:10:58 the way the combat ended up uniting Brazilians...
00:13:59 and he commanded officials who had no training and no initiative...
00:16:50 interrogating them about it and the answer was unanimous:
00:20:27 For example...
00:23:18 so we had to form one as quick as possible.
00:26:18 For Paraguay, the war starts all over again.
00:29:32 a quick and unexpected one...
00:33:28 There are little rivers...
00:36:56 and López goes back to that same operation scene...
00:39:59 had crossed the Paraná river.
00:43:23 bombarding, day and night...
00:46:26 - How do you know that? - Through History and...
00:50:08 as the incarnation of the National State...
00:53:11 Even though there was no freedom in Paraguay...
00:55:57 to justify that kind of thing...
00:59:02 the candid beauty of its women...
01:01:59 in such an open battle, typical of a war.
01:05:25 curtains, carved door frames and window frames...
01:08:38 made of corn hair to look like they were veterans...
01:11:22 near San Bernardino.
01:15:09 He said: "Kill López, the tyrant".
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,019
Dialogue density12.9 lines / min
First line00:00:02
Final line01:15:09
Production Record
DirectorSylvio Back
LanguagePortuguese
IMDb votes46