A film on the life of a German Jewish Communist who died in the Holocaust is being filmed in Brazil. “Olga” tells the story of Olga Benario Prestes, a German Jewish revolutionary who migrated to Brazil to join a Communist uprising and married Brazilian revolutionary Luis Carlos Prestes.
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