Elke Maravilha

Elke Maravilha

Born: February 22, 1945
Died: August 16, 2016
in Leutkirch im Allgäu, Baden-Württemberg, German
Elke Grünupp, known by her stage name Elke Maravilha (Leutkirch im Allgäu, February 22, 1945 – Rio de Janeiro, August 16, 2016), was a German-Brazilian model, judge, presenter and actress. She began to act as a model and mannequin at the age of 24, working with famous stylists of the time and was considered an innovator on the catwalks. Initially discreet, over time she made room for her extravagance.

Movies for Elke Maravilha...

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Title: Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Character: Self
Released: April 10, 2021
Type: Movie
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
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Moon in Sagittarius
Title: Moon in Sagittarius
Character: Ulla
Released: September 15, 2016
Type: Movie
Ana (Manuela Campagna) is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a border town between Brazil and Argentina. There, she has no leisure options and no internet access. Your only refuge is to visit a tallow / lanhouse known as "The Cave". It is there that, one day, she ends up meeting Murilo (Fagundes Emanuel), the boy she will fall in love with.
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Carrossel 2: O Sumiço de Maria Joaquina
Title: Carrossel 2: O Sumiço de Maria Joaquina
Character: Dona Lelé
Released: July 14, 2016
Type: Movie
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Super Oldboy
Title: Super Oldboy
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at the bank. One day he gets involved in an unusual bank robbery.
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Olhar de Nise
Title: Olhar de Nise
Character: Elke Maravilha
Released: September 19, 2015
Type: Movie
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Copyleft
Title: Copyleft
Released: September 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Obsessed with a heteronormative identity, Pendro confronts himself with an image that doesn’t represent who he is. On this search performed by him, the marks of violence start appearing all over his vulnerable young body.
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Title: Ferdinando Show
Released: August 10, 2015
Type: TV
Talk Show with Ferdinando
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Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
Title: Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
Character: Mirtes
Released: October 25, 2013
Type: Movie
The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.
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Mato Sem Cachorro
Title: Mato Sem Cachorro
Character: Dona Nora
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
The day a man almost runs-over a puppy, he meets the love of his life. The couple and their dog live the dream, until she wants out.
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Daquele Instante em Diante
Title: Daquele Instante em Diante
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 5, 2011
Type: Movie
This film documents in depth the life and artistic trajectory of the musician and poet Itamar Assumpção. He was one of the pillars of a moment of Brazilian popular music that was conventionally called "Vanguarda Paulista". Starting from extensive research which resulted in more than 250h of images and a dive into the personal universe of this incredible artist, Itamar comes up with a poetic, intuitive plot where facts and testimonies speak louder than preconceived ideas.
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Fca Carla
Title: Fca Carla
Character: Lúcia
Released: March 19, 2011
Type: Movie
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Extreme Happiness
Title: Extreme Happiness
Character: Grandma
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the dreams – or nearly all – seem possible. In this exciting scenery of transformation, Paulo discovers love, friendship and sex through his childhood and adolescence in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
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The Inventor of Dreams
Title: The Inventor of Dreams
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Mixed with fiction and documentary, the film relives the interviews conducted by the writer Clarice Lispector published in the magazines "Manchete" and "Fatos and Fotos" in the 1970s.
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Hello, Hello, Terezinha!
Title: Hello, Hello, Terezinha!
Character: Self
Released: October 29, 2009
Type: Movie
Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, radical, renewing, Chacrinha changed Brazilian television forever and expressed a Brazil that was around it, but was not perceived. The film tells the great adventure of Abelardo Barbosa through the eyes of the presenter. It gathers the nuclei of its constellation - chacretes, fledglings and artists who passed through its programs - to identify their individualities and their emotions.
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Dzi Croquettes
Title: Dzi Croquettes
Character: Self
Released: October 4, 2009
Type: Movie
A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
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Pixote In Memoriam
Title: Pixote In Memoriam
Character: Self
Released: October 30, 2007
Type: Movie
A tribute documentary on Fernando Ramos da Silva, the famous child star of the acclaimed film by Hector Babenco, "Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco" (1981). 20 years after his assassination by the police, his co-stars and Babenco talk about Fernando's contributions to the film, his troubled life when his acting works didn't took off as expected (since he was typecast) and which made him turn back to his past life of poverty and crimes. The project also presents that film's influence to many directors and artists around the world.
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Elke
Title: Elke
Character: Ela mesma
Released: January 2, 2007
Type: Movie
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Zuzu Angel
Title: Zuzu Angel
Character: Lieselotte
Released: August 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
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Title: Celebridade
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 2003
Type: TV
A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.
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Title: Big Brother Brasil
Character: Self
Released: January 29, 2002
Type: TV
Brazilian version of the reality game show in which a group of houseguests live together 24 hours a day, isolated from the outside world but under constant surveillance with no privacy. Each week a guest is voted out of the house until only the winner remains.
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Xuxa Requebra
Title: Xuxa Requebra
Character: Macedão
Released: December 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Nena, a journalist and former student of the Two Hearts dance academy, tries to stop the school from being sold to a group of drug dealers. She trains a group to win the Requebra dance contest that would give them the necessary money to carry their plans.
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Minas Texas
Title: Minas Texas
Character: Generosa da Luz
Released: November 5, 1989
Type: Movie
In a country town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Januária is going to marry the shy and naive Amorim. But in her heart she wants to escape with her dream hero, the cowboy Roy Pereira, and start a new life in Texas.
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Heirs of the House of Usher
Title: Heirs of the House of Usher
Character: Lady Madeleine
Released: August 18, 1988
Type: Movie
In 1947, Edgar went to visit Usher and his sister Lady Madeleine. He find out that coursed still living in the house after Usher rebuild it. Based on the novel of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Prisoner of Rio
Title: Prisoner of Rio
Character: Frank
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.
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Si tu vas à Rio... tu meurs
Title: Si tu vas à Rio... tu meurs
Character: Shipowner's wife
Released: July 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Twin brothers arrive in Rio during the Carnival. One is a priest and is going to work in a parish; the other, a drug-dealer, in a business trip to sell cocaine. They’re not aware of each other’s presence. People expecting them always get in touch with the wrong guy.
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Tanga (Deu no New York Times?)
Title: Tanga (Deu no New York Times?)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The dictator of a small Caribbean island receives the New York Times daily, sent by a nephew. Through the newspaper, he gets in touch with the world. Guerrilla groups try to neutralize this information system.
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Title: Memórias de um Gigolô
Character: Madame Yara
Released: July 14, 1986
Type: TV
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Pixote
Title: Pixote
Character: Débora
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
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Amante Latino
Title: Amante Latino
Released: June 6, 1979
Type: Movie
Upon learning that the school where he learned music is going to be expropriated, a famous singer decides to do a show for the benefit of the institution.
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O Milagre - O Poder da Fé
Title: O Milagre - O Poder da Fé
Released: March 12, 1979
Type: Movie
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A Noiva da Cidade
Title: A Noiva da Cidade
Character: Daniela
Released: May 26, 1978
Type: Movie
When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her influence in order to get ambiguous deeds done.
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Elke Maravilha Contra o Homem Atômico
Title: Elke Maravilha Contra o Homem Atômico
Character: Elke
Released: February 28, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Force of Xango
Title: The Force of Xango
Character: Iaba
Released: May 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets beautiful Zulmira; they pledge love and projects for many children. But time passes and Tonho returns to being the womanizer he had always been. Zulmira, daughter of Iansã, cannot stand Tonho's brazenness, and asks her saint-mother to wash her honor with blood.
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Bahia
Title: Bahia
Released: September 26, 1976
Type: Movie
The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen from her shortly after arrival, Otalia swiftly meets up with a group of charming and helpful friends.
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Xica
Title: Xica
Character: Hortência
Released: September 6, 1976
Type: Movie
The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power.
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Gente Que Transa
Title: Gente Que Transa
Character: Esmeralda
Released: February 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Competing for the concession of a TV channel, one of the contenders throws an orgy to defeat the other candidate.
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Title: A Volta de Beto Rockfeller
Character: Sofia
Released: March 26, 1973
Type: TV
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When Carnaval Comes
Title: When Carnaval Comes
Character: Elke Evremides
Released: July 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.
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Lua de Mel e Amendoim
Title: Lua de Mel e Amendoim
Released: August 16, 1971
Type: Movie
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Salário Mínimo
Title: Salário Mínimo
Released: December 14, 1970
Type: Movie