Antônio Conselheiro: Vladimir Herzog's project for a TV movie

Vladimir Herzog's historical research and a project sketch for a film about Antônio Conselheiro, in 1975. Journalist Paulo Markun, in the book “My dear Vlado”, suggests that Herzog had already planned a documentary about Canudos and Antônio Conselheiro since the Arne Sucksdorff Seminar, in 1963. However, it was only in 1975, having left TV Cultura and leaving Visão Magazine, that this project began to take shape. In February, Herzog travels to the region of Canudos, from where he brught back two hundred photographs of the physical and human aspects of the places for where he had been. In addition, he sketched a draft of research notes, screenplay and script for the documentary.