Direction: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Paulinho · Riva Nimitz · Henrique César · Milton Gonçalves

Plot In Rio de Janeiro, near to the Carnival, a group of boys from the slums in the hills chase cats to sell them to make a small percussion drum called...

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Helena Ignez · Paulo José · Mário Lago · Fauzi Arap

Plot In a small village in the interior of Minas Gerais, a young priest (Paulo José) arrives as the substituted for Priest Antônio, who is almost dead. There, he meets the...

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Plot Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city.

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Heron Domingues · Garrincha

Plot Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer's history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic scenes of 1958 and 1962 World Cup.

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Grande Otélo · Paulo José · Jardel Filho · Dina Sfat

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Gilberto Freyre

Plot Documentary about influential Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, made in his country house in Apipucos, Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil).

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Paulo Autran · Joel Barcellos · Luiz Carlos Barreto · María Bethânia

Plot German documentary for TV about the "Cinema Novo" movement (Brazilian New Wave).

Direction Miguel Borges · Joaquim Pedro de Andrade · Carlos Diegues · Marcos Farias

Cast Flávio Migliaccio · Haroldo de Oliveira · Milton Gonçalves · Abdias do Nascimento

Plot Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Ítala Nandi · Flávio Galvão · Dina Sfat · Juliana Carneiro da Cunha

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Plot A brief piece on one of the greatest Brazilian artists of all time, Antônio Francisco Lisboa, the Aleijadinho. An important representant of the Baroque period in Brazil, Aleijadinho was famous...

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Ferreira Gullar

Plot Short documentary about the ideology of publicity and mass medias.

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Lima Duarte · Joffre Soares · Elza Gomes · Carmem Silva

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade · Eduardo Escorel · Roberto Palmari · Roberto Santos

Cast Cristina Aché · Xandó Batista · Cláudio Cavalcanti · Paulo A. Costa

Plot Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três Virgens" (The Three Virgins) three spinsters are...

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Manuel Bandeira

Plot The camera follows an ordinary morning of famous Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira in his small apartment, making breakfast, typewriting in bed, walking through the streets of Castelo, in downtown Rio...

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast José Wilker · Luiz Linhares · Paulo César Peréio · Fernando Torres

Plot In 1972, Brazil was in the darkest days of the military dictatorship that had seized power eight years before. Working for Italian television, de Andrade embarked on a re-creation of...