Luiz Carlos Barreto

Luiz Carlos Barreto

Born: May 20, 1928
in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil

Movies for Luiz Carlos Barreto...

Title: 5x Brasil
Character: Self
Released: November 30, 2022
Type: TV
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Por onde anda Makunaíma?
Title: Por onde anda Makunaíma?
Character: Himself
Released: November 19, 2020
Type: Movie
Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between Brazil-Venezuela-Guiana, first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg at the beginning of the 1910s. With interviews in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang, Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways (from literature to cinema to theatre) and remains relevant to date.
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Title: Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Race Antenna
Title: Race Antenna
Character: Self
Released: October 15, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he interrogated a contradictory and boiling Brazil head-on, full of utopias but always under the weight of secular wounds.
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Photografaction
Title: Photografaction
Character: Self
Released: March 5, 2020
Type: Movie
A film about remarkable moments in the History of Brazilian Photography, built through the eyes of Lauro Escorel. It also reflects on the impact of digital photography on contemporary society.
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José Aparecido de Oliveira – O Maior Mineiro do Mundo
Title: José Aparecido de Oliveira – O Maior Mineiro do Mundo
Released: November 23, 2019
Type: Movie
Documentary that chronicles the trajectory of the journalist, federal deputy, secretary of state, minister of state, governor and ambassador José Aparecido de Oliveira, who lived with the greatest authorities and personalities from the political, business and cultural circles in Brazil and the world.
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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
Title: Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
Character: Self
Released: July 4, 2019
Type: Movie
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
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3 Meals
Title: 3 Meals
Character: Himself
Released: May 25, 2018
Type: Movie
This documentary shows a country that has lifted 36 million people out of extreme poverty in 12 years.
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Pitanga
Title: Pitanga
Character: Self
Released: September 23, 2016
Type: Movie
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
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Cinema Novo
Title: Cinema Novo
Character: Self - Film Producer (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 2016
Type: Movie
A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.
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Dossiê Jango
Title: Dossiê Jango
Character: Self
Released: July 5, 2013
Type: Movie
João Goulart (known as Jango) had been democratically elected president of Brazil, but was expelled from office after the coup of April 1, 1964. After that, Jango lived in exile in Argentina, where he died in 1976. The circumstances of his death in the neighboring country were not well explained today. His body was buried immediately after his death, raising the suspicions of premeditated murder. This documentary brings the issue back to the fore and tries to publicly clarify some obscure facts of the history of Brazil.
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Mario Wallace Simonsen, Entre a Memória e a História
Title: Mario Wallace Simonsen, Entre a Memória e a História
Character: Self
Released: May 13, 2013
Type: Movie
The documentary is an investigation into the life of Mario Wallace Simosen, a man who commanded conglomerates of several companies and was threatened during the Military Dictatorship, when his rights were revoked.
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Cego Aderaldo - O Cantador e o Mito
Title: Cego Aderaldo - O Cantador e o Mito
Released: July 8, 2012
Type: Movie
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Milagrez
Title: Milagrez
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.
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Depois do Transe
Title: Depois do Transe
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martim Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."
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How to Die in Cinema
Title: How to Die in Cinema
Character: Himself
Released: March 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Memories of a parrot who participated in the filming of the classic Vidas Secas, in 1962, where it was featured along the puppy Baleia.
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Glauber em Tempo - Redescobrindo o Brasil
Title: Glauber em Tempo - Redescobrindo o Brasil
Released: March 20, 2000
Type: Movie
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Cinema: Embaixador do Brasil
Title: Cinema: Embaixador do Brasil
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Jorge Amado no Cinema
Title: Jorge Amado no Cinema
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Jorjamado no Cinema foi feito para um programa de televisão consagrado ao escritor Jorge Amado. Nesse documentário, Jorge Amado é filmado em sua casa, rodeado por sua numerosa família; numa livraria, durante uma sessão de autógrafos de um de seus livros, em um cinema em Salvador, na avant-première do filme Tenda dos Milagres, de Nelson Pereira dos Santos, adaptação do livro homônimo de Jorge Amado. Glauber filma seu amigo com muito humor e carinho. A câmera vai evoluindo lentamente, sem cessar e com rapidez sobre o escritor, seus familiares, atores e atrizes do filme de Nelson, além de passar por objetos de rituais de candomblé que constituem o museu de Jorge Amado.
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Title: Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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.