We Are Also Brothers

Também Somos Irmãos

Two brothers, two paths in a pioneering drama of race and social mobility.

Copyright: Acervo Cinemateca Brasileira

  • Director

    José Carlos Burle

  • With

    Grande Otelo, Aguinaldo Camargo, Vera Nunes

  • Brazil 1949. 85min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • English subtitles

Two Black brothers opt for very different career paths in Rio. One pursues education and respectability, while the other is drawn into petty crime. Burle blends melodrama with social critique and uses his characters’ stories as a platform to confront Brazil’s myth of racial harmony.

Contains scenes of racism.

Restored digitally in 2K by the Cinemateca Brasileira and by Cinecolor Brasil.

The screening of We Are Also Brothers on Friday 1 May will be introduced by Dr Felipe Botelho Correa, King’s College London.