The nun, the torture and the censorship: an Ozualdo R. Candeias’ film between political critique and moral offense

This paper analyzes the movie The Nun and The Torturer (1983), directed by Ozualdo R. Candeias, which approaches the abuses imposed on a religious woman during the hardest years of the Brazilian military dictatorship, at the same time exploring the sexual encounters between other imprisoned side cha...

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Autor: Guedes, Wallace Andrioli
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Estudos Ibero-Americanos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/33379
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/iberoamericana/article/view/33379
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:The nun and the torturer. Brazilian military dictatorship. Censorship.
A freira e a tortura. Dictadura militar brasileña. Censura.
A freira e a tortura. Ditadura militar brasileira. Censura.
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Sumario:This paper analyzes the movie The Nun and The Torturer (1983), directed by Ozualdo R. Candeias, which approaches the abuses imposed on a religious woman during the hardest years of the Brazilian military dictatorship, at the same time exploring the sexual encounters between other imprisoned side characters. Since the movie was censored by the Public Diversion Censorship Division (DCDP) in the final years of the dictatorship, its censoring process is also unraveled in this article, which exposes the connections and mismatches between moral and political censorships in the period of transition to democracy.