Editing Four Days in September (section)

==Plot==
The film is a fictionalized version of the dramatic events of the [[1969 kidnapping of the United States Ambassador to Brazil|abduction]] of the American ambassador [[Charles Burke Elbrick]] (played by [[Alan Arkin]]). Elbrick was kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro by the [[Revolutionary Movement 8th October]] (MR-8) with the help of the [[Ação Libertadora Nacional]].  Gabeira (played by [[Pedro Cardoso (Brazilian actor)|Pedro Cardoso]] and named Paulo in the film) as a student joins the radical movement after Brazil's military [[1964 Brazilian coup d'état|overthrew]] its government in a 1964 coup. In 1969, he and his comrades decide to kidnap the American ambassador to protest the Brazilians' coup; the film busies itself with the group's conspiring and execution of the crime. Paulo is portrayed as "the most intelligent and uncertain of the kidnappers."<ref name="ebert"/>

The film explores Paulo's love affair with Andréia, the guerrilla leader. It suggests a kind of friendship developing between Paulo and Elbrick. The ambassador is portrayed as a decent man who shares some of his kidnappers' frustrations regarding the [[Military dictatorship in Brazil|Brazilian military dictatorship]], and one who fulfills his duty to his own government.