Legião Urbana - Angra dos Reis (clipe original)

What this video is

Produced at the apex of the 'Rock de Brasília' movement and released as a single in May 1988 — barely a year after the Chernobyl disaster (April 1986) and the Goiânia radiological accident (September 1987) — 'Angra dos Reis' is one of the most explicitly ecological artifacts of Brazilian rock. Renato Russo was a vocal opponent of the construction of the Central Nuclear Almirante Álvaro Alberto in the eponymous…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of 1980s Brazilian post-punk and the 'Rock de Brasília' canon. The song and its video represent a rare convergence of romantic ballad structure with explicit anti-nuclear political content, deployed through documentary aesthetics rather than dramatic narrative. It established a…

The director

Jodele Cláudio Muniz Dondice Larcher (born Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, 1955) is a Brazilian television director, TV producer, video artist and video jockey. He is considered one of the pioneers of the music video format in Brazil, with a career spanning more…