This paper considers the relationship between censorship and cinematic representation of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship in the regime's final years. In order to do so, it examines the feature movie Pra frente, Brasil, directed by Roberto Farias and released to theatres around the country in early 1983. The strategy is to discuss whether Farias' representational aesthetics, and political speech, were either determined by censorship pressures or just expressed the director's own political point of view.
Brazilian civil-military dictatorship; censorship; Brazilian cinema; resistance; double-thinking.