Ruth Escobar

Ruth Escobar

Born: March 31, 1935
Died: October 5, 2017

Movies for Ruth Escobar...

Primavera
Title: Primavera
Character: Helena
Released: February 17, 2022
Type: Movie
Moments before a father's death, all of his family memories are transferred to his son through a dream, from the first ancestor, an Englishman living at the end of the 18th century, to his Brazilian heirs, the protagonists of this story.
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Gregório de Mattos
Title: Gregório de Mattos
Released: February 14, 2003
Type: Movie
The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his transgressive poetry against the élite of the time.
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The Jew
Title: The Jew
Character: D. Maria Ana
Released: January 16, 1996
Type: Movie
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
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Romance
Title: Romance
Released: September 18, 1988
Type: Movie
After a man dies under mysterious circumstances, his girlfriend and his gay lover deal with his death in different ways.
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O Homem Que Virou Suco
Title: O Homem Que Virou Suco
Released: December 13, 1980
Type: Movie
Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.
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Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
Title: Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and then the conflicts that break out as they tour Iran and France with a performance of Calderon's autos sacramentales. A problem with a scenery prop sparks a crisis in the group and the film chronicles this disaster.
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Hitler in the Third World
Title: Hitler in the Third World
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.