Plot Summary

Getulio is about the last days of Brazilian president Getulio Vargas, who killed himself with a shot to the heart in August 1954. The film explores the personal and political reasons that lead the former dictator, reelected by direct vote, to choose suicide over resignation in the midst of a serious crisis involving corruption and treason. It is a political thriller that has as its starting point a failed assassination attempt against Getulio's number one foe, and ends with the popular outcry caused by the President's death.