Paulo César Saraceni
Also Known As: Paulo Cézar Saraceni
Biography: Paulo César Saraceni was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed 14 films between 1960 and 2011. His 1999 film Traveller was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Mention.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: November 05, 1933
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 14, 2012
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The Good Cinema

Overview: An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

Overview: Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-17
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Love, Carnival and Dreams

Overview: On Carnival's eve, girl dreams of a man to stay with her during these four days. She meets a photographer, with whom she has an affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-02-11
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Sermões

Overview: Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-05-24
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

Overview: Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Depois do Transe

Overview: The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar

Overview: Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-10-28
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Dib

Overview: Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino

Overview: A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albino Pinheiro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Natal da Portela

Overview: Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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A Etnografia Da Amizade

Overview: Film Editor/Director Ricardo Miranda makes a homage to his friend Paulo Cezar Saraceni
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Cinema Novo

Overview: A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-05-16
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Muito Prazer

Overview: Two contrasting social groups get in touch: three architects and three street urchins, all struggling for survival.
Genres: Drama
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Release Date: 1979-09-25
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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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Lúcio Cardoso

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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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