Cartola
Biography: Angenor de Oliveira, better known as Cartola OMC (Rio de Janeiro, October 11, 1908 – Rio de Janeiro, November 30, 1980), was a Brazilian singer, composer, poet and guitarist. He is considered by several musicians and music critics as the greatest samba player in the history of Brazilian music. Having as its main hits the songs As Rosas não Falam, O Mundo É um Moinho and Alvorada.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 11, 1908
Deathday: November 30, 1980
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997-01-01
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Overview: "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Álbum de Música
1974-01-01
Álbum de Música
Overview: Portrait of various figures in Brazilian pop music.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Fala Mangueira!
1983-01-01
Fala Mangueira!
Overview: A documentary on the influence that carnival has on the daily life of the Mangueira hill in Rio de Janeiro. It follows the manufacture of the carnivals of 1981 and 1982, interviewing several residents who tell the story of more than half a century of the favela's existence and emphasizing its community importance and cultural, to the sound of the most beautiful sambas composed on Mangueira.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
2022-10-06
Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
Overview: A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her lifetime.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
2019-05-15
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Overview: Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-05-15
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The Outsiders
1968-01-27
The Outsiders
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-27
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Cartola: MPB Especial
1974-01-01
Cartola: MPB Especial
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Ganga Zumba
1963-04-16
Ganga Zumba
Overview: The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-04-16
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Cartola: The Samba Legend
2007-04-06
Cartola: The Samba Legend
Overview: Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira).
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-04-06
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Chega de Demanda
1973-01-01
Chega de Demanda
Overview: Documentary addressing the composer Cartola and the transformations that took place in Morro Carioca and in Samba during his life. Founder of the Escola de Samba Estação Primeira de Mangueira, Cartola has his life and his music marked by his community and his School, far from the city His school, created as a playful and expressive center for the mangueirense, has now become a point of tourist attraction. This made work possible for the inhabitants of the hill, but it transformed the spirit of samba and its aesthetics.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Black Orpheus
1959-06-12
Black Orpheus
Overview: Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-06-12
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