Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.
Marcos Medeiros - Codinome Vampiro is of 1 hour(s) and 25 minute(s). It is Produced By: Cavídeo Produções. It was released on 2018-03-31.
Genres: Documentary
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