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Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 17, 1941
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Gender: Male
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Overview: Poetic documentary about brazilian musician Walter Franco.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-25
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Overview: Mangue Beat, a musical and aesthetic movement which emerged in Pernambuco in the 1990s, transformed the visibility of the peripheries and cultural manifestations of the metropolitan area of Recife and placed the state on the map of the world music market with the launching of bands like Chico Science and Nação Zumbi and Mundo Livre S.A. The film experiments with the freedomn of thought of the Mangue using a plural language, which brings togther ideias and ideals, refleting the daring which resulted in the great symbol of the movement: a satellite dish planted in the mud of the estuaries - the Mangue.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-12-10
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Overview: This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-04
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Overview: Portrait of various figures in Brazilian pop music.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Overview: A harmonicist, a pool player, and his old assistant get invited as entertainers at a fancy dinner party but have to wait in the lobby for what seems like forever. They witness all sorts of absurdities as the party goes on and guests loosen up.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-06-29
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Overview: Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Torres, Marilia Pera, Antonio Cicero and others.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-03-03
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Overview: The film follows the birth of Jorge Mautner up to his 17 years. He was born in Brazil shortly after his parents fled the Holocaust. Raised by a nanny who introduced him to Candomblé, Mautner became a precursor of the Tropicália, contributing to the construction of the identity of Brazilian music.
Genres: Fantasy Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-03-23
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Overview: An innocent working girl finds a hole in her wall through which she can see the action in the next apartment, where a prostitute meets her bizarre clients.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-11-13
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Overview: A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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Overview: A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a generation of artists and sportsmen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-25
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Overview: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the military dictatorship the befell in Brazil from 1964 to 1985. The film presents the events of the prison, life in exile and the return to the country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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Overview: A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada", Mautner says. He also affirms that the work focuses a lot on the longing for Brazil, on the will that the exiled had to return to their homeland. The idea came from conversations between the musician and his old father, "always talking about the pre-Socratics", he recalls. Glauber Rocha states that "The Demiurge" is the best film "of" and "about" exile.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Overview: Rogério Sganzerla’s lost film. The only existing copy was lost in 1992 and the negatives are lost. It tells about the history of Betty Bomba, an exhibitionist woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-03-22
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-02
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Overview: Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the expectations of three generations, she tries to discover who she really is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-07-27
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Overview: Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and cultural and artistic figures such, such as Zé Celso, Jorge Mautner, Roberto Piva and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Overview: Palavra (En)Cantada makes a journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry and music, sewing testimonials of great names of our culture, musical performances and amazing research of images.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-26
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Overview: Sao Paulo revisited by brazilian poets that were aligned with the beatnik generation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-11-05
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Overview: Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for her film, but ends up being arrested and tortured as his torturers suspect he's involved in a plot to overthrow the military government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-05-13
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Overview: Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-10
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Overview: Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Overview: In March 2006, the team for the Navegar Amazônia project left the Jandiá Channel in Macapá, bound for Belém. On board a regional boat, adapted with a modern multimedia laboratory, were the project team and thirty persons, including musicians and filmmakers. The objective was, along the way, to offer workshops in music, cinema, photography, video and art to the population visited on the river's edge. The documentary is a record of the interaction between the guests and the local population. The Navegar Amazônia project captures and conveys contents of the Amazon in a unique way: from the heart of the forest and from the river to the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-04-08
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Overview: "Before I Forget" is a short film by Jairo Ferreira. It was filmed in 1977, during the release of the book of the same name of Roberto Bicelli. The poet is part, along with Cláudio Willer and Roberto Piva, of the surrealist group of São Paulo. Also participating in the short Jorge Mautner and Nelson Jacobina.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Overview: Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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Overview: Brazilian documentary that tells the story of Titãs, the most famous rock band in the country. The film was directed by one of the members, Branco Mello, using images recorded from the early 80's until the present day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-16
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