What my father wouldn鈥檛 tell me
Carol Benjamin鈥檚 quest to understand the scars and silences that haunted her family after Brazil鈥檚 military coup.
Carol Benjamin's family was perfectly ordinary - until the military took over in Brazil in the 1960s. Her father Cesar, who was just a schoolboy at the time, became an underground revolutionary in the armed uprising against the dictatorship. And when he was captured, Carol鈥檚 quiet law-abiding grandmother joined the resistance movement to free him. Years later, Cesar refused to speak about his experiences and Carol grew up trying to fill in the gaps in her family's history, and attempting to understand her father and his silences.
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Presenter: Jo Fidgen
Producer: Maryam Maruf
Picture: Carol and Cesar Benjamin
Credit: Courtesy of Carol Benjamin and Daza Films
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