Untitled Chico Mendes Biopic

January. 01,0001

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Drama History

Keywords：

Based On True Story 1980s Amazon Rainforest

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Chico Mendes, who was murdered by a rancher in 1988, is an international symbol of the struggle to protect the Amazon Rainforest. As the leader of the rubber tapper trade union, he organized the so-called empates, a pacifist resistance action in which workers blocked the advance of machines entering the forest with their bodies.

Jorge Paz as Chico Mendes

Bruno Gagliasso as

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