Preceded by short:I'm Your Life, Not Your Death (Haroldo Marinho Barbosa, Brazil, 1971). (Eu sua vida, eu não sou morte). Through the relationship and interaction of two men and a woman, the manipulative mechanisms of religion, the institution of family, and the state are exposed. Photographed by João Carlos Horta. (14 mins (corr: 12 mins), In Portuguese with English subtitles, 16mm (corr: 35mm)(Os inconfidentes). The Conspirators addressed the censorship and repression of its moment by setting its story-about repression and failed rebellion-in eighteenth-century Brazil, when it was a Portuguese colony. The film (funded by Italian television) tells of a conspiracy of provincial intellectuals and local bigwigs who, inspired by the revolutions in France and North America, devise heady plans to liberate Brazil. Only one, however, Tiradentes (his name derived from his role in the town, tooth-extractor), is a proponent of mass uprising. Though all are mercilessly imprisoned and interrogated by the regime, Tiradentes will take the fall-and become a national hero with his own holiday. Actual court transcripts and the literature of the period are woven into a screenplay that has a distinctive poetic as well as political cadence. "Brilliantly directed with recurring surrealistic flashes... De Andrade (establishes) the concept, equally valid for contemporaries, that the fate of the nation is decided in prison by the extent to which political wards resist or buckle under torture." (Variety)