Caetano Veloso, Walter Salles Talk Venice Doc on Veloso’s 1968 Incarceration During Brazil Dictatorship, Trailer Debuts (EXCLUSIVE)
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentIn 1968, during Brazil’s military dictatorship, singer-songwriter, Caetano Veloso – who the preceding year had been among founders of the revolutionary Tropicalia artistic movement – was arrested on trumped-up charges. Veloso was taken from his São Paulo home to Rio de Janeiro, where he was placed in solitary confinement for one week and held behind bars for 54 days. More than 50 years later, in the documentary “Narcissus Off Duty,” which will premiere on Sept.