Editing Four Days in September (section)

==Background==
The film is "loosely based" on the 1979 [[memoir]] ''O Que É Isso, Companheiro?'' (in [[English language|English]]: ''What Was That, Man?''), written by politician [[Fernando Gabeira]].<ref name="holden"/> In 1969, as a member of [[Revolutionary Movement 8th October]] (MR-8), a student [[guerrilla]] group, he participated in the abduction of the United States ambassador to Brazil, negotiating to gain release of leftist political prisoners. MR-8 was protesting the recent takeover of Brazil by a military government and seeking the release of political prisoners. But, the military further increased its repression of dissent, MR-8 and ALN members were tortured by the police, and democracy was not re-established in Brazil until 1985.<ref name="holden"/>

Gabeira later became a journalist and politician, elected as congressman from the [[Green Party (Brazil)|Green Party]].