In March 1964 the feature film On the Death List (Cabra Marcado para Morrer) was being shot in Northeastern Brazil, using farmworkers as actors to tell the story of farm labor leader João Pedro Teixeira, who was brutally assassinated in 1962. Filming was halted with the military coup of March 31, 1964. Now, twenty years later, Eduardo Coutinho has “finished” the film in a most remarkable way, shifting his focus entirely from the life of João Pedro to the paths that his family and compatriots in the peasant leagues have taken since '64. João Pedro's widow Elizabeth Teixeira, herself a political activist “marked for death,” has lived under an assumed name in a backwoods village with only one of her ten children; she has not seen the others for some 17 years. Buoyed by the presence of the film crew she emerges from her forced anonymity with a new determination to resume her former life, thus making Coutinho's film a profound contribution to what one Brazilian critic called “documentary filmmaking as the practice of life.” A unique work that has been hailed by Brazilian and international critics alike. (Selected for the Museum of Modern Art's New Directors/New Films '85.)