The movie focuses on the personal and political story of its protagonist, lawyer Eunice Paiva (1929–2018) whose husband, former Congressman Rubens Paiva, was kidnapped and killed by agents of ...

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It’s anchored by a remarkable performance in the central role of Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens and mother of the family, who’s left to pick up the pieces following her husband’s arrest.

When the celebrated Brazilian author Marcelo Paiva started writing his 2015 memoir Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here), he wanted to record his family history as his mother, Eunice Paiva ...

Actress Fernanda Torres was also nominated for an Oscar for her leading role as Eunice Paiva. Her husband, Rubens Paiva, had been a congressman before the U.S.-backed coup d'etat in 1964.

That woman is Eunice Paiva, and in January 1971, her life was turned on its head when military police raided her family’s Rio ...

Paiva became a symbol of the struggle against the oppression of the Brazilian dictatorship and a defender of human rights.

In Walter Salles’ Oscar-shortlisted film I’m Still Here, set in 1970 at the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship, Fernanda Torres plays an extraordinary mother: Eunice Paiva, who was ...

Many detainees were tortured and killed, including Rubens Paiva. His wife Eunice and their 15-year-old daughter were also brought in for questioning but were eventually permitted to return home.

I'm Still Here is a Brazilian film that follows Eunice Paiva, who copes with the disappearance of her politician husband during the military dictatorship in Brazil in 1970. Reviews for I'm Still ...

The critically acclaimed film ‘I’m Still Here’ focuses on the personal and political history of Eunice Paiva but offers glimpses of her Indigenous rights work as a lawyer — a rarity in ...