Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Nelson Pereira dos Santos was a Brazilian film director. He directed films such as Vidas Secas (Barren Lives), based on the book with the same name by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos. He also directed Rio 40° (his first feature film) which was released in 1955. The film is a chronicle of life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and it influenced several other directors, spurring the Cinema Novo moment. His most well-known film outside of Brazil is Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, 1971). It was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival. The film takes place in the sixteenth century and details the alleged cannibalistic practices of the (now extinct) indigenous Tupinamba warrior tribe against the French and Portuguese colonizers of the Brazilian littoral. The film is something of a black comedy about European colonialism, one that makes satirical use of the Brazilian modernist trope of antropofagia (cultural cannibalism), then recently revived by the Tropicalismo movement of the 1960s, as well as a bitter commentary on the historical genocide of the indigenous tribes in Latin America and the gradual destruction of their civilization. Santos was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 2006 up to his death, result of multiple organ failure, on 12 April 2018.
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
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Garden of War
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Crítico
as SelfSeventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the...
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Cinema Novo
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements...
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
as Self (archive footage)Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian...
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Mandacaru Vermelho
as AugustoDespite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at...
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
as SelfOriginally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema...
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Sambando nas Brasas, Morô?
as SelfThe adventures of Pedro, a musician who is trying his luck in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950's. He...
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
as SelfConducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the...
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
as SelfTwo years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy...
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Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
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O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro
as uncreditedDocumentary on the view, testimonies and times of Darcy Ribeiro, since military dictatorship.
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For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
as uncredited1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies....
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How to Die in Cinema
as HimselfMemories of a parrot who participated in the filming of the classic Vidas Secas, in 1962, where...
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At the Edge of the Earth
as SelfOn 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere...
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Dib
as SelfDocumentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib...
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Brazil in Cannes
as uncreditedThe importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in...
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The Good Cinema
as SelfAn authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most...
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Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of...
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