Joel Barcellos
Also Known As: Жуэл Барселлус, Joel Martins
Biography: Joel Dias Barcellos, better known as Joel Barcelos (Vitória, November 27, 1936 – Rio das Ostras, November 10, 2018), was a Brazilian actor, having also worked as a screenwriter and director. In some films, he was credited as Joel Martins. He was a very active actor in New Cinema, especially in the 1960s. He received the Candango Award for Best Actor at the Brasília Festival for his performance in Jardim de Guerra, in 1968. He was also elected 'Best Supporting Actor' by the same award when acting in Kiss 2348/72. Despite preferring cinema, he also played roles on television, mainly in miniseries.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: November 27, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 10, 2018
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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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The Agony
Overview: Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by the roadside. Strongly painted lips, printed dress with round skirt and red shoes matching the color of the lipstick, she catches his attention. He gives her a ride, the two of them stare in silence for a few moments. They introduce themselves to one another and between the two establishes an absurd dialogue and full of metaphors. And they are driving around in corners of Rio de Janeiro, to the sound of Noel Rosa and Lamartine Babo. Eva and Antena, she a seer, he, an assassin on the run, initiate an unusual case of love, a marginal love, where boredom often gives way to tragedy, creating the agony of a holiday spent in an abyss.
Genres: Romance Crime Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-30
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The Conformist
Overview: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Olhos de Vampa
Overview: A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is assigned to investigate the murder together with fetishist photographer Oscar. Without any lead, they decide to follow a sexy and popular night-club dancer on the streets of São Paulo, trying to identify possible suspects.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-08-01
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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
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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The Secret of the Mummy
Overview: A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-09-06
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Rio Babilonia
Overview: A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-09-14
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L'inchiesta
Overview: The events of Giuliano Sartori, correspondent from Genoa for a newspaper in the capital, involved in a complicated investigation set in a psychiatric clinic. Not a simple Italian thriller but a "Russian doll", an open story with different levels of reading and interpretation, in which the distance between the madness of authenticity of feelings and the sprawling social normality that leads to 'annulment of the person and loneliness. Collaborators on the subject and the script of the film are Bernardo Bertolucci and Enzo Carra.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-04
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The Guns
Overview: A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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The Dare
Overview: Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-07-09
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Anchieta, José do Brasil
Overview: Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-07-22
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Brasília - A Última Utopia
Overview: Six episodes set in and focusing on the history of Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Episode list: A Paisagem Natural (dir. Vladimir Carvalho), O Sinal da Cruz (dir. Pedro Jorge de Castro), A Volta de Chico Candango (dir. Roberto Pires), Além do Cinema do Além (dir. Pedro Anísio), Suíte Brasília (dir. Moacir de Oliveira) and A Capital dos Brasis (dir. Geraldo Moraes).
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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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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Tropico
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-16
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Corações a Mil
Overview: University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs and performances, while ultimately falling in love with one of his groupies.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-03-10
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A Dama do Estácio
Overview: Zulmira is an old mistress who lives in the neighborhood of Estacio, in Rio de Janeiro. One day she wakes up obsessed with the idea of dying. All she needs is a good coffin. A tribute to Leon Hirszman's "The Deceased", the first film starred by Fernanda Montenegro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-19
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Exu-Piá, Coração de Macunaíma
Overview: The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently living: one is running away from the deforestation in the Amazon while the other got tired of living in heaven and wants to return to his land.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-26
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Encarnação
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Feminino Plural
Overview: "Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the behavior imposed on women, they seek to rescue the strength of the feminine. The new woman, born in the Brazilian land, incorporates the Amazons and Santa Guerreira. At his side, the new man, more loose and creative. Closing the cycle, the initial road is resumed. " (HBH / QC)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring
Overview: In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled with the chance of overtaking the place.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-12-14
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Sagarana: O Duelo
Overview: Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-08-26
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Copacabana Fools Me
Overview: Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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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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Memories of Helen
Overview: Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal friend, has an important role.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-11-19
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The Naked Man
Overview: Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Big City
Overview: In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, later, the company of Inácio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-05-13
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Plano B
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-04-21
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Soul's Boundary
Overview: The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-07-06
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O Picapau Amarelo
Overview: The Viscount of Sabugosa is locked in the library writing an encyclopedia about the characters in children's fables. Dona Benta receives a letter from little Thumb, written on a rose petal, in which he, realizing that the inhabitants of the world of fables are forgotten in the books on the shelves, requests that everyone live in Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. Emília and the children love the idea, and Dona Benta says yes. They move
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Stop 88
Overview: Residents of the city of Parada 88, contaminated in 1994 due to the explosion of a chemical industry reactor, live in plastic tunnels, the only way of life that can guarantee their survival, since oxygen, which has become a good consumption, used needs to be reused so as not to generate more expenses. One day, Joaquim wins a lottery that gives him enough money to pay for his and his family's oxygen; but to claim the prize, he'll need to go to the ruins of the factory to collect news from a group of contamination experts adventurers posted there.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-02-27
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The Girl from Ipanema
Overview: Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-26
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The Deceased
Overview: After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-09-22
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France, Incorporated
Overview: In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his situation was prosperous until, during a political change, the government legalized its use.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-04
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Ovelha Negra, Uma Despedida de Solteiro
Overview: João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Batalha dos Guararapes
Overview: In the early 17th century, the Dutch have occupied Bom Jesus village, the last native stronghold in the Pernambuco captaincy. An adventurer, João Fernandes Vieira, sees himself in the middle of a conflict, torn between joining his friend Mauricio de Nassau alongside the ruling Dutch and siding with his lover Ana Paes in the fight to free his homeland.
Genres: Action History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-09-25
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Virgin on the Hill
Overview: Ring whose previous owner was a prostitute with supernatural powers causes double personality in a young woman about to marry. After some time, her face gets disfigured, forcing her to wear a mask.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-09-10
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Fire Light
Overview: Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-04-05
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Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática
Overview: A couple of filmmakers facing difficulties to make a film in the midst of an economic crisis, affecting the relationship between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-12-19
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The Beggars
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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Sant'Anna dos Pescadores
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-05-11
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Images of the Unconscious
Overview: In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the Museum of Images from the Unconscious in 1952. It gathered paintings and drawings made by mental patients from all over Brazil. Many of the works in the museum are paired with the case-histories of the patients who created them in this fascinating film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Entranced Earth
Overview: Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-02
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Jardim de Alah
Overview: An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of squares on the middle of neighborhoods Ipanema and Leblon. There, people of different social classes interact together - workers who live in the Cruzada de São Sebastião building and the local bourgeois class who live in fancy condos. There, the rich and the poor unite in the same spirit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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A Man and His Cage
Overview: The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe. After his wife's death, Tino continues living with Selma, with whom he had ambiguous relations, which he now wants to sever. Weak at this impossible love, he asks the maid Enedina to lock him in his room. There, he revives memories through letters, notes and photographs. Selma's son João is waiting for her at the airport and dreams of loving fulfillment in his own mother's arms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-09-23
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Kiss 2348/72
Overview: Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the hardships of the labor lawsuit he filed against the company.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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Sonhei com Você
Overview: Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-08-18
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Five Times Favela
Overview: Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-11-20
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My Home Is Copacabana
Overview: Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by shining shoes, stealing, and cutting the strings of the kites to sell them later to others. Tired of life on the streets, one boy turns himself over to the police in hopes he will be sent to reform school in a last desperate attempt to survive. This feature from acclaimed Swedish director Arne Sucksdorff appeared at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-06-08
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Aperana Street 52
Overview: In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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Insônia
Overview: A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber
Overview: This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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Rua Descalça
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Genres: Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Crônica À Beira do Rio
Overview: Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums, where life changes very quickly in the short space of time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Journey to the End of the World
Overview: During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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Tatu Bola
Overview: Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent fisherman. As soon as he finds out that Zefa is very ill, Expedito runs back home and finds his adoptive mother in agony. At the edge of the bed, a mysterious woman, who claims to be Death, sits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Presença de Marisa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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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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