Jorge Amado
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Biography: Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences. He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. He won the 1984 International Nonino Prize in Italy. He also was Federal Deputy for São Paulo as a member of the Brazilian Communist Party between 1947 and 1951. Amado was born on Saturday, 10 August 1912, on a farm near the inland city of Itabuna, in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia. He was the eldest of four sons of João Amado de Faria and D. Eulália Leal. The farm was located in the village of Ferradas, which, though today is a district of Itabuna, was at the time administered by the coastal city of Ilhéus. For this reason he considered himself a citizen of Ilhéus. From his exposure to the large cocoa plantations of the area, Amado knew the misery and the struggles of the people working the land and living in almost enslaved conditions. This was to be a theme present in several of his works (for example, The Violent Land of 1944). As a result of a smallpox epidemic, his family moved to Ilhéus when he was one year old, and he spent his childhood there. He attended high school in Salvador, the capital of the state. By the age of 14 Amado had begun to collaborate with several magazines and took part in literary life, as one of the founders of the Modernist "Rebels' Academy". He was the cousin of Brazilian lawyer, writer, journalist and politician Gilberto Amado, and of Brazilian actress and screenwriter Véra Clouzot. Amado published his first novel, The Country of Carnival, in 1931, at age 18. He married Matilde Garcia Rosa and had a daughter, Lila, in 1933. The same year he published his second novel, Cacau, which increased his popularity. He studied law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law but never became a practising lawyer. His leftist activities made his life difficult under the dictatorial regime of Getúlio Vargas. In 1935 he was arrested for the first time, and two years later his books were publicly burned. His works were banned from Portugal, but in the rest of Europe he gained great popularity with the publication of Jubiabá in France. The book received enthusiastic reviews, including that of Nobel prize Award winner Albert Camus. In the early 1940s, Amado edited a literary supplement for the Nazi-funded political newspaper "Meio-Dia". Being a communist militant, from 1941 to 1942 Amado was compelled to go into exile to Argentina and Uruguay. When he returned to Brazil he separated from Matilde Garcia Rosa. In 1945 he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly, as a representative of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) (he received more votes than any other candidate in the state of São Paulo). He signed a law granting freedom of religious faith. ... Source: Article "Jorge Amado" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
Birthday: August 10, 1912
Deathday: August 06, 2001
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Gender: Male
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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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Looking Back at You
Overview: Looks at the work of Brazilian photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado (b.1944). In his monumental photo-essay, Workers, Salgado’s dominant theme is the displacement of manual labor by technological advances. He documents the effects of this new industrial revolution on laborers in Eastern Europe, Cuba, Gdansk, Brazil, India, Sicily, and Bangladesh. Includes archival footage of Salgado’s life and commentary by artists, photographers, critics, and writers such as Jorge Armado, Robert Delpire, Jimmy Fox, and Arthur Miller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-12
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Bahia de Todos os Santos
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-06-12
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Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Overview: Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-12-31
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Jorge Amado no Cinema
Overview: Jorjamado no Cinema foi feito para um programa de televisão consagrado ao escritor Jorge Amado. Nesse documentário, Jorge Amado é filmado em sua casa, rodeado por sua numerosa família; numa livraria, durante uma sessão de autógrafos de um de seus livros, em um cinema em Salvador, na avant-première do filme Tenda dos Milagres, de Nelson Pereira dos Santos, adaptação do livro homônimo de Jorge Amado. Glauber filma seu amigo com muito humor e carinho. A câmera vai evoluindo lentamente, sem cessar e com rapidez sobre o escritor, seus familiares, atores e atrizes do filme de Nelson, além de passar por objetos de rituais de candomblé que constituem o museu de Jorge Amado.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Bahia, For Example
Overview: Through folklore manifestations and diverse artistic expressions, the film is a document that exalts and honors the Bahian culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-11-24
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Aimé Césaire, Une voix pour l'histoire
Overview: A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who coined the term "négritude" and launched the movement called the "Great Black Cry".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-07-29
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Jorge Amado
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-08-04
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Jorge Amado
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Overview: Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important Brazilian documentary filmmakers in activity, his images influenced the emergence of Cinema Novo and the new Brazilian documentary years later. Quando a Coisa Vira Outra covers the most important films made by Vladimir, revealing where ideas come from to show the true reality of a country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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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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Josué de Castro, Cidadão do Mundo
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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Na Casa de Rio Vermelho
Overview: Brazilan writer Jorge Amado and his everyday life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Tieta of Agreste
Overview: After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-08-30
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O Homem de Areia
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-08-23
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Dê Lembranças a Todos
Overview: Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought about his Bahia, even far from it. His family, partners, friends and fans remember his history, which made him one of the pillars of Brazilian culture.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-01
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3 Obás de Xangô
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-05
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Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-28
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Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
Overview: Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996. Gil recalls his artistic trajectory, recalls striking facts and reveals some intimacies. Completely filmed on film, it includes great successes of the artist like Madalena, Cores Vivas, Vamos Fugir, Procissão and Expresso 2222.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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