Vladimir Herzog speaks on the phone

Journalist Vladimir Herzog speaks on the phone Herzog (1937-1975) was a Brazilian intellectual who acted as journalist and filmmaker in the 1960s and 1970s. From a Jewish family, he survived the holocaust and arrived at Brazil in 1946. He has built a solid career in important media-press organizations, such as BBC, Visão Magazine (Sight), and TV Cultura, always inclined to cultural themes and to the distressing Brazilian social issues. In October 1975, during the Brazilian military dictatorship, Vlado was tortured and assassinated by agents of the State, who had forged a fake suicide. Since then, his family and his friends fight for Memory, Truth and Justice regarding his emblematic case. In 2009, the Vladimir Herzog Institute was created to celebrate the life and the path of the journalist and to honor Democracy, the Human Rights and the Freedom of Speech.