Vladimir Herzog
Acting
Biography
Vladimir Herzog, known as Vlado, was a Brazilian journalist, professor, and filmmaker. He was born on June 27, 1937, in Osijek, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia). After spending some time in Italy, he emigrated to Brazil with his parents in 1942. Raised in São Paulo, he later became a naturalized Brazilian citizen. Herzog studied Philosophy at the University of São Paulo (USP) and began his journalism career in 1959 at the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. At the time, he felt that his birth name, Vlado, didn’t sound natural in Portuguese, so he adopted the name Vladimir. In the early 1960s, he married Clarice Herzog. Herzog began working in television in 1963, and two years later he was hired by the BBC’s Brazilian Service, moving to London, where his two sons, Ivo and André, were born. In 1968, he returned to Brazil. He worked for the magazine Visão for five years and later taught broadcast journalism at the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) and at USP’s School of Communications and Arts (ECA-USP). In 1975, he was appointed Director of Journalism at TV Cultura by São Paulo’s Secretary of Culture, José Mindlin. On October 24, 1975, Herzog was summoned to appear at the DOI-CODI, a military intelligence and repression center, to give testimony about his alleged ties to the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). He was tortured and, the following day, killed. The official version given by the military regime claimed that Herzog had hanged himself with a belt, and a staged photo of the supposed suicide was released. However, testimonies from journalists detained at the site confirmed that he was murdered under torture. In 1978, the coroner Harry Shibata admitted that he had signed the autopsy report without examining or even seeing the body. That same year, Brazilian courts found the federal government guilty of Herzog’s illegal imprisonment, torture, and death — a landmark decision during the dictatorship. In 1996, the Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances officially recognized that Herzog had been murdered and granted compensation to his family, which they refused, arguing that the State should continue investigations rather than close the case. It wasn’t until March 2013, more than 15 years later, that his death certificate was officially amended: the cause of death was changed from “mechanical asphyxia (hanging)” to “injuries and mistreatment sustained during interrogation at the facilities of the 2nd Army – São Paulo (DOI-CODI).”
Known For
Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Paulo in a cycle repeated every day. Viramundo's aim was to question why the military coup d'état in Brazil happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society.
Viramundo
A series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle involved.
Doramundo
Three widows of political prisoners united against the dictatorship in Brazil and the repression of the military regime.
Eunice, Clarice, Thereza
The documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been tortured and murdered during the repression years of Brazilian military dictatorship.
Vlado: Thirty Years Later
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Metalúrgicos do ABC: 20 anos lutando pela democracia
The only film by Yugoslavian-Brazilian journalist Vladimir Herzog, this cinéma verité short subject is the result of a film course taught by Swedish documentary filmmaker Arne Sucksdorf in Brazil, in 1962. A report about the so-called "Marimbás", who aren't exactly fishermen, even though they live of the sea, have their boats and do their fishing on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. The film briefly presents their stories, methods, and how they manage to sell their products to costumers right there on the same spot in which they fish.
Marimbás
The practices of football in Brazil and the issues surrounding the sport. Press, players as a commodity, the popular passion, the practice on the fields of várzea. The statements of Luiz Carlos de Freitas, a young promise of Palmeiras, and Feola's coach, as well as an interview with Pelé.
Subterrâneos do Futebol
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of journalist Vladimir Herzog, who was murdered by the military dictatorship in Brazil, the documentary retraces his life and the story of his family — up until his death on October 25, 1975. His assassination became a turning point in Brazil’s struggle for redemocratization during the 1970s.