O Evangelho Segundo Teotônio

Directed by Vladimir Carvalho

With Teotônio Vilela, Leonel Brizola, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Carlos Castello Branco and Miguel Arraes

Passages from the life of former Alagoan senator Teotônio Vilela, with emphasis on the process of his formation as a public figure, from his childhood as a mill boy to the final stage, with his famous campaign for the democratic restoration of the country. At this point, he was a man on the brink of death, already victimized by the cancer that would kill him.