This project develops research in the collection of the Division of Public Entertainment Censorship (DCDP), held at the National Archives in Brasília. Its object is a set of 996 censorship proceedings produced during the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964–1985) concerning films from four countries of the socialist bloc: the Soviet Union, Poland, China, and Cuba.
The aim is to investigate the censorship reception of these works, considering the existence of a strongly anti-communist regime in Brazil that was, at the same time, characterized above all by pragmatism in the diplomatic field, including in its relations with socialist countries.
Thus, this research project moves across the fields of the history of the military dictatorship, film history, and the history of international relations, mobilizing specific reflections from each of them, while placing at its center an in-depth engagement with this DCDP documentation.