Maioria absoluta: utopias agrárias pelas lentes de Leon Hirszman (1960-1964)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the movie “Maioria Absoluta” (1964), of Leon Hirszman, in the political, cultural, and artistic context of the 60’s in Brazil, using as perspective the studies of utopias and more specifically, the agrarian utopias that moved this period. In this context of political unrest, while the Basic Reforms (1961) were announced, with focus on the Land Reform, the agrarian approach was present in the artistic production in order to criticize the Brazilian development model and the peasants’ lives conditions. The documentary was a production connected to the UNE Popular Cultural Center (1962-1964), a group which discussed the national-popular debate through cultural instruments such as the theatre, the songs and the cinema, the area in which “Maioria Absoluta” is localized. We are also interested in understanding the role of Leon Hirszman as an intellectual-filmmaker inside the construction of political ideas for the period creating, in this way, relations between Political History and Intellectual History.