Reading the World (2025)

0.0/10 • 71 min • Documentary

Overview

In 1963, global icon Paulo Freire led an experimental project teaching hundreds of rural farmers to read, write and vote in Brazil, until he was arrested and forced into exile during a U.S.backed coup d'etat.

Cast

Paulo Freire

Self

Leticia Oliveira

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