The first part of the book provides a timeline of events that includes actions taken by the Revolutionary Movement 8th October.
The film is a fictional version of the dramatic events of the 1969 abduction of the American ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick (played by Alan Arkin) in 1969 in Rio de Janeiro by the Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8).
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It is a fictional version of the 1969 kidnapping of the United States Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by members of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8).
At that point, they developed an intense political enmity towards the unionist leadership of the ABC Region, which later gave birth to the Workers' Party.
American Revolutionary War | International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement | Non-Aligned Movement | 8th United States Congress | October Revolution | Revolutionary Tribunal | Union for a Popular Movement | Arts and Crafts movement | 8th | Oxford Movement | Indian independence movement | White movement | Temperance movement | Movement for Democratic Change | Institutional Revolutionary Party | Polish resistance movement in World War II | Latter Day Saint movement | Revolutionary United Front | Papal conclave, October 1978 | October 1978 | conservation movement | United Kingdom general election, October 1974 | The Hunt for Red October | Armenian Revolutionary Federation | Resistance movement | October | Italian resistance movement | 19th of April Movement | temperance movement | Orange Democratic Movement |
As historian and former MR-8 militant Daniel Aarão Reis Filho declared to journalist Elio Gaspari, "as part of the radicalization process initiated on 1961, the project of the leftist organizations that supported the armed struggle was revolutionary, abusive and dictatorial (...) There is not even one document of those organizations in which they present themselves as a tool of democratic resistance".