Documentários brasileiros entre 1950 e 1999
Breve lista de documentários relevantes para entender o Brasil e sua formação neste período.
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- DirectorAloysio RaulinoLuna AlkalayThis documentary takes us on a ride through Marginal Tietê, an important avenue in São Paulo, Brazil, then recently opened to the public. The places it crosses and the people living nearby force the viewer to think about the core of this big city.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoResidents of a slum in Rio de Janeiro are invited to share religious experiences and personal beliefs while reflecting about their daily lives.
- DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeStarsPaulinhoRiva NimitzHenrique CésarA few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.
- DirectorMarcelo MasagãoStarsFranz ReicheltA fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.
- DirectorSilvio TendlerStarsLeonel BrizolaJoão GoulartJuscelino KubitschekThe story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsSamuel FullerJim JarmuschIn 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter. Sam hopes to find people who remember him, and he takes film he shot in 1954. He's Rip Van Winkle, and, indeed, a great deal changed in the village. There are televisions, watches, and brick houses. But, the same Karajá culture awaits as well. He gathers the villagers to show his old film footage, and people recognize friends and relatives, thanking Fuller for momentarily bringing them back to life.
- DirectorPierre BarouhStarsMaria BethâniaJoão da BaianaPaulinho da ViolaDocumentary about Brazilian music circa 1969, with extremely rare scenes, such as the only color footage of Pixinguinha, images of João da Baiana, one of the fathers of Samba, Maria Bethânia rehearsing at Barroco nightclub, Baden Powell playing his acoustic guitar, Paulinho da Viola showing his masterpiece "Coisas do Mundo, Minha Nega", that he had just finished, and Márcia, a singer from São Paulo.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoThe daily routine of poor people of Itaoca, São Gonçalo, state of Rio de Janeiro, who make a living out of revolving garbage.
- DirectorLinduarte NoronhaThe real story of Quilombo Olho d'Água da Serra do Talhado, in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, which became institutionally isolated from the rest of the country. Quilombos were runaway slave communities in colonial Brazil.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsLélia AbramoLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaVinicius de MoraesA detailed look at the events that led to the continuous strikes that shut down many factories during the still repressive days of the military regime. The workers union, led by syndicalist Lula, demanded better work conditions and better payments, fighting not only against their exploitative bosses but also the political establishment of the time. Crowds were gathered, protests and marches were planned, constantly followed by the police but the workers bond and strategy was so strong and efficient that everything turned out in their favor, with peaceful movements and no casualties on both sides.
- DirectorMaurício ShermanVictor di MelloStarsMario KempesCésar Luis MenottiZicoDocumentary about the Football World Cup held in Argentina in 1978, focusing on the competition and behind the scenes of the most important soccer competition in the world.
- DirectorJean Claude GuiterStarsJean AlesiMartin BrundleJuan Manuel FangioThe Official Film of Brazil's greatest Formula One driver, Ayrton Senna, who's sudden death in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix sent shock waves around the World. It cemented his reputation both within the sport, and his native Brazil, as a legend. The film looks at his life and career using archive footage and featuring revealing interviews with the man, as well as those who knew him well; friends, family and competitors. It also shows how the Ayrton Senna Foundation, set up in his honor, is working to help under privileged and street-bound children in his native Brazil using sport as an incentive to learn.
- DirectorGlauber RochaIn 1966, José Sarney was elected governor of Maranhão for the first time. To register his inauguration speech and his political pledge to the population of the state, the politician invited the main figure of the Cinema Novo, the great filmmaker Glauber Rocha, to capture everything and turn into a great event. However, Rocha's nervous camera and combative spirit end up capturing a lot more than what Sarney had expected, by showing the contrast between the eloquent words spoken about progress and the harsh reality faced by the poor people.
- DirectorRegis FariaStarsMilhem CortazReginaldo FariaOtávio MüllerDocumentary about Brazilian criminal Leonardo Pareja, with interviews with Pareja himself, his adoptive mother and several interns at Cepaigo penitentiary, where Pareja did time.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoDocumentary on poor people living in two slums in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve.
- DirectorIsa CastroAugusto SeváStarsManfredo BahiaÍndio EzequielCélia MaracajáThe small Brazilian town of Trancoso--its people and their way of life--becomes the subject of this documentary.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsFerreira GullarStatistics, interviews and historical information on illiteracy and inequality in land distribution in Brazil's countryside.
- DirectorOctávio BezerraStarsEmmanuel CavalcantiMacsuara RadivelAfonso SoaresDocumentary about the avenue (Avenida Brasil) that is the main access to Rio de Janeiro, crossing very poor and violent suburbs.
- DirectorToni VenturiStarsJorge AmadoOlga BenarioArthur BernardesBrazil's history during the 20th Century serves as a background to Luiz Carlos Prestes's curious course. The Knight of Hope, as he was known, took part in the epic march of rebellious soldiers in the '20s, when he could testify Brazilian people's misery. After that, he became a communist and started to fight for more justice in his country.
- DirectorMário CarneiroPaulo César SaraceniIn the brazilian city of Arraial do Cabo, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, fishermen struggle to sustain their community. A big industry installs in town, changing the way and the culture of this small village.
- DirectorRogério SganzerlaStarsAry BarrosoLinda BatistaDorival CaymmiA film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles eyes during the shooting of It's All True.
- DirectorMaurice CapovillaStarsValdir de MoraesAntero de OliveiraVicente FeolaIn the wide world of sports, soccer is a passion for Brazilians and in this documentary viewers are presented with testimonies from players Vavá, Pelé and Zózimo the great accomplishments of the sport and also the dream of young and poor boys who dream of a better social status.
- DirectorPaulo RufinoAna CarolinaStarsFrancisco MartinsJofre SoaresA debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".
- DirectorErik de CastroThe saga of the First Group of Fighter Aviation of Brazil, which took part in the Second World War in the Italian skies, told by their own pilots. There are 23 interviews with veterans and their families, all of them illustrated by artist Júlio Zartos's drawings and mixed with images of that time, took by cameras hidden in Brazilian planes or borrowed from Aerospace Museum of Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorTetê MoraesStarsBolívar AnoniCerlyDante de OliveiraDocumentary about the oppression of a group of a thousand families who invaded Anoni Farm, a farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1985, and their leader, Rose, a woman fighting for the right of owning a land and for elementary human rights, and who also was the mother of the first baby born in the camping site.