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Ervilha da Fantasia
1

Ervilha da Fantasia

Jan 01, 1985

Ervilha da Fantasia
1985 29 min 1 vues
Fancy Pea is a Brazilian documentary produced, written and directed by Werner Schumann, in the year 1985, reporting facts about the life and work of the Brazilian writer, poet, translator and professor Paulo Leminski. The program was shown on TV in 1985 and 1989 (at the time of the death of the writer).
Documentary
Candango: Memórias do Festival
5

Candango: Memórias do Festival

Oct 22, 2020

Candango: Memórias do Festival
2020 119 min 1 vues
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.
Documentary
Lost Zweig
1

Lost Zweig

May 18, 2003

Lost Zweig
2003 113 min 1 vues
The life of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in Brazil. He wrote the famous book "Brasil, País do Futuro" (Brazil, Country of the Future). He and his wife Lotte, in a mysterious death pact, decided to kill themselves in the week following 1942 Carnival, in Brazil.
Lance Maior
4.3

Lance Maior

Jan 02, 1968

Lance Maior
1968 90 min 5 vues
University student who works in a bank experiences a personal crisis: he is torn between his ambitions and the temptation to engage in the armed movement against the military dictatorship of the time, in Brazil. At the same time, his love life is also confusing: he is unable to choose between two girls: an apolitical rich one, whose main interest is her own sexual liberation; and a working girl with family problems.
Drama
A Guerra dos Pelados
5

A Guerra dos Pelados

Jan 01, 1970

A Guerra dos Pelados
1970 92 min 3 vues
In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former owners of the land. The episode became known as Guerra dos Pelados.
History
Rádio Auriverde
1

Rádio Auriverde

Jan 01, 1990

Rádio Auriverde
1990 77 min 1 vues
A documentary discussing Brazil's efforts of taking part on World War II by sending troops from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) to Italy.
Documentary
O auto-retrato de Bakun
7

O auto-retrato de Bakun

May 05, 1984

O auto-retrato de Bakun
1984 43 min 1 vues
Miguel Bakun's life and work, narrated by a medium in trance and by people who knew him. He is considered the greatest painter from Paraná, Brazil, and killed himself in 1963, at 54.
O auto-retrato de Bakun
7

O auto-retrato de Bakun

May 05, 1984

O auto-retrato de Bakun
1984 43 min 1 vues
Miguel Bakun's life and work, narrated by a medium in trance and by people who knew him. He is considered the greatest painter from Paraná, Brazil, and killed himself in 1963, at 54.
Lance Maior
4.3

Lance Maior

Jan 02, 1968

Lance Maior
1968 90 min 5 vues
University student who works in a bank experiences a personal crisis: he is torn between his ambitions and the temptation to engage in the armed movement against the military dictatorship of the time, in Brazil. At the same time, his love life is also confusing: he is unable to choose between two girls: an apolitical rich one, whose main interest is her own sexual liberation; and a working girl with family problems.
Drama
Guerra do Brasil - Toda Verdade sobre a Guerra do Paraguai
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Guerra do Brasil - Toda Verdade sobre a Guerra do Paraguai

Jan 01, 1987

Guerra do Brasil - Toda Verdade sobre a Guerra do Paraguai
1987 79 min 1 vues
Between 1864 and 1870, South America was the scene of the biggest and bloodiest armed conflict of the century, known as the "Paraguay War," or "Big War," for Paraguayans. Mixing reality and fiction, the documentary discusses this "draft" of World War I, which involved Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, decimating around one million people.
Documentary
Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro
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Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro

Nov 25, 1999

Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro
1999 86 min 1 vues
Poet Cruz e Souza was a black man, born in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where the majority of the population are blonde. He was also poor and fell a prey to the racism of his time. Died young, at 37, and dragged the great love of his life, Gavíria, into a path of great suffering.
Drama
Aleluia, Gretchen
4.8

Aleluia, Gretchen

Nov 01, 1976

Aleluia, Gretchen
1976 111 min 4 vues
A German family moves to a small town in the interior of the state of Paraná, Brazil, and buys a hotel there, which soon becomes sort of a meeting point for Nazi sympathizers.
Drama
Yndio do Brasil
5.5

Yndio do Brasil

Jan 16, 1995

Yndio do Brasil
1995 70 min 4 vues
Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how the film industry has seen and heard Brazilian indigenous peoples since they were filmed in 1912 for the first time: idealised and prejudiced, religious and militaristic, cruel and magic.
Documentary
Yndio do Brasil
5.5

Yndio do Brasil

Jan 16, 1995

Yndio do Brasil
1995 70 min 4 vues
Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how the film industry has seen and heard Brazilian indigenous peoples since they were filmed in 1912 for the first time: idealised and prejudiced, religious and militaristic, cruel and magic.
Documentary
República Guarani
7.5

República Guarani

Jan 01, 1981

República Guarani
1981 100 min 1 vues
Formed by Jesuit missions in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, between 1610 and 1767, it congregated about 150,000 indigenous people in almost fifty "reductions" (Jesuit cities). The Christian-Communist Republic of the Guaranis was decimated by attacks of expeditions and mercenaries and served as an excuse for the kings of Portugal and Spain to banish the Jesuits from America.
Documentary
Lost Zweig
1

Lost Zweig

May 18, 2003

Lost Zweig
2003 113 min 1 vues
The life of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in Brazil. He wrote the famous book "Brasil, País do Futuro" (Brazil, Country of the Future). He and his wife Lotte, in a mysterious death pact, decided to kill themselves in the week following 1942 Carnival, in Brazil.
Lost Zweig
1

Lost Zweig

May 18, 2003

Lost Zweig
2003 113 min 1 vues
The life of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in Brazil. He wrote the famous book "Brasil, País do Futuro" (Brazil, Country of the Future). He and his wife Lotte, in a mysterious death pact, decided to kill themselves in the week following 1942 Carnival, in Brazil.
Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro
1

Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro

Nov 25, 1999

Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro
1999 86 min 1 vues
Poet Cruz e Souza was a black man, born in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where the majority of the population are blonde. He was also poor and fell a prey to the racism of his time. Died young, at 37, and dragged the great love of his life, Gavíria, into a path of great suffering.
Drama
Rádio Auriverde
1

Rádio Auriverde

Jan 01, 1990

Rádio Auriverde
1990 77 min 1 vues
A documentary discussing Brazil's efforts of taking part on World War II by sending troops from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) to Italy.
Documentary
Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro
1

Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro

Nov 25, 1999

Cruz e Sousa - O Poeta do Desterro
1999 86 min 1 vues
Poet Cruz e Souza was a black man, born in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where the majority of the population are blonde. He was also poor and fell a prey to the racism of his time. Died young, at 37, and dragged the great love of his life, Gavíria, into a path of great suffering.
Drama
Lance Maior
4.3

Lance Maior

Jan 02, 1968

Lance Maior
1968 90 min 5 vues
University student who works in a bank experiences a personal crisis: he is torn between his ambitions and the temptation to engage in the armed movement against the military dictatorship of the time, in Brazil. At the same time, his love life is also confusing: he is unable to choose between two girls: an apolitical rich one, whose main interest is her own sexual liberation; and a working girl with family problems.
Drama