Maria da Graça Soares Mascarenhas and Yves Winandy with children in front of the Museum of Canudos (BA).

Photograph of Maria da Graça Soares Mascarenhas and Yves Winandy with children in front of the Museum of Canudos (BA), Brazil, registered by Vladimir Herzog during research in February, 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 traveled to the region, from where he brought back two hundred photographs of the physical and human aspects of the places where he had been. In addition, he sketched a draft of research notes, screenplay and script for the documentary.