This article analyses the relation between Brazilian movie producers and the State in the creation of agencies for incentive and protection of Brazilian cinema and in the elaboration of cultural projects aiming to use movies as an instrument of education and propaganda during the "Estado Novo" (1937-1945). In the 1930's and 40's, Brazilian movie-makers, fascinated with systems of official cinematographic production in Germany, Italy and the USSR, vindicated similar interventions of the Brazilian government, considering them as necessary for the implementation of a national cinematographic industry.
Brazilian cinema; cinema and History; movies in the Estado Novo; nazi movies; fascist movies; soviet movies; movies and politics