Anselmo Duarte
Also Known As: Ансельмо Дуарти, Ансельмо Дуарте
Biography: Anselmo Duarte Bento (April 21, 1920 – November 7, 2009) was a Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director. Initially known as a leading man in popular musical comedies (known in Brazil as "chanchadas"), he debuted as filmmaker in 1957's "Absolutamente Certo", in which he also stars. His next film, "O Pagador de Promessas" (1962), adapted from a stage play by Dias Gomes, won the Golden Palm at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. It is, to date, the only Brazilian feature film to be so distinguished and the first Cannes' Southern Hemisphere Golden Palm for best feature film. Duarte was awarded with the Order of The Cultural Merit, Brazil's highest cultural civilian honor, and with the Order of Ipiranga, which is the state of São Paulo's highest civilian honor. He was also awarded with titles of merit citizenship by numerous Brazilian municipalities including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salto, his birthplace. In 2009, the municipality of Salto inaugurated a multimillion-dollar cultural and educational center named "Centro Cultural e Educacional Anselmo Duarte", housing a 500 audience amphitheater for film and theatrical events. The center also displays for public view the original "Golden Palm" awarded to Duarte at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. n 2008, at 88, Duarte founded a cultural organization (Instituto Anselmo Duarte) dedicated to restoring selected Brazilian films and creating special, free of charge, educational projects aimed at young filmmakers to improve their technical filmmaking skills. After his death, his son, Ricardo Duarte, 69, became the institute's president. Upon being diagnosed by suffering Alzheimer's dementia in 2002, Duarte spent his last 7 years of life under the care of his son, Ricardo, and his grandchild, Daphne, a preeminent Brazilian artist. Anselmo had 4 children. Reaching stage 6 on his Alzheimer illness condition, a bladder cancer was detected which led to a severe blood hemorrhage, precipitating a heart stroke. Although both the bladder cancer and heart conditions had been successfully treated, a sudden massive hemorrhagic brain stroke left the legendary Brazilian actor and filmmaker in a coma for 6 days, which led to his passing on November 7, 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anselmo Duarte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salto, São Paulo, Brazil
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Birthday: April 21, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 07, 2009
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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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O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-07-27
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Un rayo de luz
Overview: A man and a woman have been secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor actress and singer that is failing to success in her career. One day, he decides to tell his family that he's married and flies to Italy, where they live, but the flight has an accident and he dies. The man's brother goes to Spain to look for the body, and he discovers not only that his brother is married, also that his brother's wife is pregnant.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-09-09
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Brazil in Cannes
Overview: The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the transition from film to industrialized production. It is the meeting of producers, technicians, critics , celebrities in general, offering opportunities for greater knowledge and renewal of values
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-12-24
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Case of the Naves Brothers
Overview: After their relative and associate runs way, the Naves brothers inform the police of the incident, who end up arresting them under the accusation of murdering the missing person. The brothers are tortured in order to confess a crime they did not commit while their wives are raped.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-30
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O Marginal
Overview: Fleeing from the orphanage where he was living, young Valdo immediately entered the life of the crime, establishing himself as a dangerous adult criminal. However, his petty thefts do not satisfy him and he longs for bigger things and when he becomes a lover of Beth, the young criminal realizes that he can enrich himself very and very fast.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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Aviso aos Navegantes
Overview: In Buenos Aires, Frederico hides in a ship going to Rio de Janeiro to travel for free. But Azulão, the cook, finds him and blackmails him into working in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Alberto, the captain, receives a radio message saying that there was a dangerous international spy on board. Things get worse when some passports are mixed-up.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1950-02-07
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Depois Eu Conto
Overview: Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1956-07-27
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Absolutely Right
Overview: A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1957-11-11
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Maior Que o Ódio
Overview: Two friends grow together in the same neighborhood but, as adults, take different paths in life. One becomes an honest worker, and the other gets strayed. But the good guy's sister has an affair with her brother's friend, and is much abused by him. Her brother wants revenge. But when he sees him in danger, some time later, he must decide which is the stronger feeling: the former friendship, or his wish for revenge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1951-03-16
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Veneno
Overview: An employee of a glass factory suffers with his wife's contempt and starts to develop homicidal delusions about her. One night, he meets a singer which resembles his wife a lot and conjures up a plan.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-11-26
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Tico-Tico no Fubá
Overview: Tico-Tico no Fubá is a 1952 Brazilian comedy film directed by Adolfo Celi and starring Anselmo Duarte. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-04-21
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A Espiã que Entrou em Fria
Overview: A scientist discovers a breakthrough formula for harnessing nuclear energy and becomes the target for numerous secret agents around the world.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-10-05
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Carnaval no Fogo
Overview: A gang, leaded by the unknown and mysterious Anjo, robs a jewelry and schedules a meeting in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Copacabana. The identification would be through a cigarette case with an angel, and the password "- Is everything all right?" Meanwhile, the director Ricardo is preparing a show for the carnival in the hotel with Marina, and they love each other. The janitor Serafim receives a letter from his unknown American brother, who will come to Rio to spend the carnival and meet him, and asks Eliana for a chance in the show, since his brother believes he is an artist. When Ricardo finds the cigarette case lost by Anjo in the entrance of the hotel, he is misidentified by the thieves, and this is the beginning of lots of confusion and fun.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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The Landowner's Daughter
Overview: In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this backdrop, Sinhá Moça falls in love with a young lawyer, and they get involved in a great love story.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1953-05-11
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Tensão no Rio
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-08-29
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Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Overview: italian documentary
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-02-19
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The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Overview: A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-07-28
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A Madona de Cedro
Overview: Delfino, a quiet man who lives in Congonhas do Campo, a small historical town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is urged by his friend to steal the image of the Madona de Cedro (the Cedar Madonna), sculpted by Aleijadinho in the 18th century, from the town sanctuary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-05-21
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Assim Era a Atlântida
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-08-27
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Appassionata
Overview: Sílvia Nogalis, a renowned concert pianist, prefers her career to her marriage. On the night she performs Beethoven's "Appassionata", she learns of the death of her husband, maestro Walter Hauser.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-05-26
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Scarlet Macaw
Overview: A mine boss hires a policeman to chase some runaways who stole a precious diamond.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1957-09-02
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A Casa das Tentações
Overview: Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-09-29
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Carnival on Mars
Overview: A woman impressed by news reports about flying saucers, gets hit on the head by a vase, passes out and dreams that she is the 'Queen of Mars', from where she sends an expedition to Earth in order to bring back Rio's Carnaval to the planet.
Genres: Music Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1955-02-05
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Paranóia
Overview: Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-09-13
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Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente
Overview: Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for his own wedding, cannot remember who the bride might be. In the third, a rich husband tries to find the tattooed man he saw escaping through his wife's bedroom window.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-07
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Pinguinho de Gente
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1949-10-02
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Ninguém Segura Essas Mulheres
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-15
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O Cantor e o Milionário
Overview: A singer is in love with the wife of a rich banker. Both men have the same analyst who allow them to swap souls.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1958-07-21
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Brasa Adormecida
Overview: Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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Golpe de Vista
Overview: The rise of Brazilian directors Anselmo Duarte and Glauber Rocha occurred through different professional trajectories. Rocha working as a young film critic in Bahia and Duarte working his way through the Brazilian studio system as part of the leading actors. However, the two crossed paths amicably on the set of O Pagador de Promessas, Anselmo Duarte's 1962 film that won the Palme d'Or.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-01-02
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Querida Suzana
Overview: Romantic comedy...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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The Shadow of Another
Overview: A drama about double personality
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1950-10-27
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Noiva da Noite - O Desejo de 7 Homens
Overview: As revenge against the big landowner who killed his brother, a convict escapes and rapts the man's daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-11-10
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I, I, I José Lewgoy
Overview: Documentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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Embalos Alucinantes: A Troca de Casais
Overview: Sexual adventures of a prostitute's son and a bordello owner, who like to swap women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-06-04
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Carioca Symphony
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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O Caçula do Barulho
Overview: In a workshop there are six workers, the six are brothers. Enter the mother who asks them to rescue the seventh brother, the youngest, Luis. The brothers hesitate because the youngster keeps getting into trouble, but they end up giving in to the request. Gangsters are fighting in a bar and the workers end up getting into the fray.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1949-04-06
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Independência ou Morte
Overview: The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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Juventude e Ternura
Overview: The young singer Beth is torn between love for the honest pianist Guy; and the powerful smuggler Estênio, who sponsors his promising career.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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O Diamante
Overview: Disagreements between brothers and marital infidelity are just some of the consequences that the discovery of a valuable diamond causes.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1955-08-18
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Overview: Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema
Overview: About English photographer Chick Fowle. Statements by Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Vilar, Marlene França, Vanja Orico. A film about directors, actors and teams that Chick Fowle worked and works with, also showing the possibility of renewal that Brazilian cinema can and must have.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Terra Violenta
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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Don't Tell Me Goodbye
Overview: An Argentinian and a Brazilian fall in love and at the same time, their couples do the same thing between them.
Genres: Adventure Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-10
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As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
Overview: The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents, sensibility, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of the Minho.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1961-01-13
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I Have Got AIDS
Overview: A docufiction that reveals the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. Interviews with famous Brazilian personalities and anonymous people about the disease’s pandemic all over the world, their opinions, and hopes for a future cure.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-07-16
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