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Sao Paulo, 2007. Brazil is on its way to become an economic superpower. Right in the centre of the 20 million Metropolis, stands a stronghold of the lower class: Prestes Maia, the biggest squatted building in Latin America. A huge and proud bastion of the underclass: 468 families on 22 floors, 1,379 inhabitants with 1,379 stories. And all of them have only one goal: to stay. But the government has different plans. Prestes Maia – Freedom in Concrete is a film about a country on its way to become a global player and about its poorest, who try their best to find their place in the new society and to stay there.

Germany - 2008 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital • 16/9 • PAL - Colour

Director Levin Peter, Ira Willke-Beetz, Jonas Ginter Writer Tom Vater based on Thomas Fischer Camera Levin Peter Sound Albrecht Schuch Sets Thomas Fischer Editing André Nier Music Nils Kacirek

Production Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion-Hamburg, Eppendorfer Weg 93a, 20259 Hambourg, Allemagne Tél : +49 40 7697 3070 Fax : +49 40 7697 3065 E-mail : hamburg@gebrueder-beetz.de

Sales Reinhardt Beetz Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion-Hamburg, Reinhardt Beetz, Eppendorfer Weg 93a, 20259 Hambourg, Allemagne Tél : +49 40 7697 3070 Fax : +49 40 7697 3065 E-mail : hamburg@gebrueder-beetz.de