Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Also Known As: Нелсон Перейра дус Сантус, Нельсон Перейра дос Сантос, Нельсон Перейра дус Сантус, Нельсон Перейра душ Сантуш
Biography: Nelson Pereira dos Santos ComRB • OMC (São Paulo, October 22, 1928 — Rio de Janeiro, April 21, 2018) was a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. Having been one of the founders of the Cinema Novo movement, his production spans a period of 60 years in the history of Brazil. Considered one of the most important filmmakers in the country, he was strongly influenced by the works of the 1930s generation of Brazilian literary modernism, having adapted works by Graciliano Ramos and Jorge Amado for cinema. His film Vidas Secas, based on Graciliano's novel, is one of the most awarded Brazilian films of all time, being recognized as a masterpiece. In 2006, he was elected Immortal by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, a position he held until his death in 2018.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: São Paulo, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: October 22, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 12, 2018
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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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O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro
Overview: Documentary on the view, testimonies and times of Darcy Ribeiro, since military dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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Sambando nas Brasas, Morô?
Overview: The adventures of Pedro, a musician who is trying his luck in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950's. He leaves his hometown Belo Horizonte to share a lodging with his brother Carlos in Rio. During one of his gigs, he meets Arlete, a singer in a vocal group and fall in love.
Genres: Drama History Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-04
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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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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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Que Viva Glauber!
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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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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How to Die in Cinema
Overview: Memories of a parrot who participated in the filming of the classic Vidas Secas, in 1962, where it was featured along the puppy Baleia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-03-07
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Mandacaru Vermelho
Overview: Despite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes after them, in order to kill them for revenge.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1961-11-27
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Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
Overview: A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-06-30
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At the Edge of the Earth
Overview: On 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere in Capitólio Theater in Rio de Janeiro to astonished audiences bewildered by the impressive and poetic images. Considered by many viewers the best Brazilian movie ever made, this feature has never been released commercially. However, in a great paradox, Mário Peixoto has never made any other movie. The director Sérgio Machado pays a great tribute to the life and work Mário Peixoto a.k.a. Maçarico by his close friends with this documentary, using his diary; footages of "Limite", the never concluded "Onde a Terra Acaba" (1933) and the short "O Homem do Morcego" (1980); and interesting testimonies of Olga Breno, Ruy Solberg, Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Walter Salles among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-07-07
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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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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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Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema
Overview: For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world. Precursor of Cinema Novo, Nelson was, more than a director, he was an ideologue, a thinker of his country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-05-17
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Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-05
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Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-08-22
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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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Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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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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Nelson Filma
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Garden of War
Overview: Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-05-13
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Critic
Overview: Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-22
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Português - A Língua do Brasil
Overview: 16 members from the Brazilian Academy of Letters share their views on the current situation of the portuguese language.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-02
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For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
Overview: 1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies. Giancarlo, an Italian immigrant married to a Brazilian woman, lives nearby the Parnamirin Field, the largest military base built by the USA outside of their territory. In this new base, Brazilian recruits who speak English suddenly find themselves reaching privileged positions.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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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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Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-07-11
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A música que meu pai gostava
Overview: Nelson Pereira dos Santos talks about The Highway of Life (1980)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-09
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Referências
Overview: During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo Bulbul gathered some of the most notorious Brazilian black directors to talk about their works, their lives and their perspectives on the future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Nelson Filma o Rio
Overview: The city of Rio de Janeiro in the films of Nelson Pereira dos Santos contextualized by critic Rodrigo Fonseca.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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A Paz é Dourada
Overview: The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a failed attempt at directing his biopic in the 1980s and 1990s. Footage from the unfinished film is included alongside archive and documentary material.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-14
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Overview: In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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