Desc: Braços Cruzados, Máquinas Paradas: Directed by Roberto Gervitz, Sergio Toledo. With Othon Bastos. São Paulo, 1978. Three slates vie for leadership of the Metalworkers' Union of São Paulo, the largest in Latin America, with 300,000 members, and chaired by a "pelego" (aligned with the bosses), since the military coup of 1964. Amid election, hatch the first workers' strikes that would change the country.