Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Gil

Born: June 26, 1942
in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira, known professionally as Gilberto Gil, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician, known for both his musical innovation and political activism. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Movies for Gilberto Gil...

Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos
Title: Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos
Character: Self
Released: April 25, 2024
Type: Movie
An irresistible journey through the universe of the singer and composer that revolutionized the song in Brazil and influenced generations of musicians, paving the way for movements such as Bossa Nova and Tropicália.
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A Última Vanguarda
Title: A Última Vanguarda
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 2024
Type: Movie
70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an artistic vanguard that still impacts Brazilian culture today.
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They Shot the Piano Player
Title: They Shot the Piano Player
Character: Self (voice)
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.
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Môa, Mother Africa Roots
Title: Môa, Mother Africa Roots
Character: Self
Released: August 3, 2023
Type: Movie
The documentary that began together with Mestre Môa do Katendê before his political murder, tells the life story of this capoeirista and founder of Afoxé Badauê, intertwined with the rise of black cultural manifestations in Bahia, based on a last interview left by him.
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Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso
Title: Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso
Character: Self
Released: June 16, 2023
Type: Movie
The backstory and legacy of Brazilian rock band Os Paralamas do Sucesso is examined in this fascinating music documentary. With previously unseen footage, access to present-day rehearsals, and a visit to where it all began, TV presenter Roberta Martinelli shines a light on the lives of Herbert Vianna, Bi Ribeiro and João Barone like never before.
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Chic Show
Title: Chic Show
Character: Self
Released: June 14, 2023
Type: Movie
Discover the history of the Chic Show ball, an iconic black music party in São Paulo. The event was a milestone in the life of São Paulo. Held in halls across the city in the 1970s and 1980s, the show became a meeting point for black culture and opened up space for funk, soul, rap and pagode, among other rhythms. The party welcomed names such as Tim Maia, Sandra de Sá, Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Bebeto and Carlos Dafé, as well as international artists such as Kurtis Blow, Betty Wright and James Brown.
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Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer
Title: Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 2022
Type: Movie
The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer born in Rio Grande do Sul and author of hits that surpass generations.
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Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
Title: Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
The film is an unprecedented and exclusive testimonial of Maria Bethânia from director and screenwriter Carlos Jardim, interspersed with rare footage of rehearsals and concerts by the singer throughout her 57-year career. Actress Fernanda Montenegro narrates five texts by authors such as Ferreira Gullar and Caio Fernando Abreu about Bethânia's importance on the Brazilian cultural scene.
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Title: Gil Family
Character: Self
Released: June 24, 2022
Type: TV
Follows one of the most famous families in Brazilian music during the creation of an unprecedented concert, which will bring together all generations of the Gils on stage for the first time.
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O Presidente Improvável
Title: O Presidente Improvável
Character: Self
Released: March 31, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: 2022
Character: Self
Released: March 11, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Astral Journey
Character: Self
Released: December 21, 2021
Type: TV
Two celebrities with the same zodiac sign embark on an astral journey to the past, present and future led by Angélica and astrologers Paula Pires and Vítor diCastro.
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Gilberto Gil: Um Deus em seu Jardim
Title: Gilberto Gil: Um Deus em seu Jardim
Character: Self
Released: August 21, 2021
Type: Movie
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Arraial do Gil
Title: Arraial do Gil
Character: Self
Released: June 13, 2021
Type: Movie
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Pelé
Title: Pelé
Character: Self
Released: February 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary path from breakthrough talent to national hero. Mixing rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, this documentary celebrates the legendary Brazilian footballer who personified football as art.
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Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil
Title: Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 2020
Type: Movie
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De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
Title: De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European invasion of the continent, police violence, the genocide of the black people, the massacre of indigenous peoples, religious violence, the criminalization of funk music, structural racism in art and education, the importance of quota policy and the need urgent historical repair as a commitment by the Brazilian state to the black people.
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Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo
Title: Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo
Character: Self
Released: August 22, 2020
Type: Movie
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Encontros Tropicais
Title: Encontros Tropicais
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 2020
Type: Movie
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Gilberto Gil Antologia Vol.1
Title: Gilberto Gil Antologia Vol.1
Character: Self
Released: December 9, 2019
Type: Movie
The documentary goes through works composed by the Bahian musician between 1968 and 1987. Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, one of the most well-known members of the Tropicália generations, revisits some of his most famous works on this documentary.
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Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar
Title: Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar
Character: Self
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Singer, composer, actor and painter, Dorival Caymmi was a multiple artist, but what they may not know is his pioneering work in introducing candomblé into Brazilian popular music. Recreating in a poetic way concepts present in Caymmi's work and life, the documentary revelation of the artist from his own lines, mined in old magazines.
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Refavela 40
Title: Refavela 40
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1976, Gilberto Gil traveled to Lagos (Nigeria) with the purpose of participating in the Second Festival of Black Art and Culture. The event had the participation of approximately fifty thousand Afro-descendant and Diaspora artists. After the trip, Gil released the album Refavela. The documentary celebrates the 40th anniversary of this album essential album for the Brazilian Popular Music.
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October
Title: October
Character: Self
Released: October 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A view of Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections, held in October of that year. The polarizing Election led to the rise of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro
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Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro
Title: Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro
Character: Self
Released: July 21, 2019
Type: Movie
The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and unusual rhythmic quality influenced several prominent artists in Brazilian popular music. With unpublished testimonies from professional colleagues and family members, as well as archival footage of their participation in cinema and radio, the documentary traces their journey between troubled relationships, dramas, controversies, stardom, ostracism, the return to the artistic milieu, even his death in 1982.
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O Barato de Iacanga
Title: O Barato de Iacanga
Character: Self
Released: June 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.
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All Love Songs
Title: All Love Songs
Character: Self
Released: November 8, 2018
Type: Movie
Chico and Ana move to an apartment in São Paulo. As they unpack Ana found a cassette tape. It's a mix-tape that Clarisse made 20 years earlier to her husband Daniel. Albeit separated by time, both stories will cross paths in a unique way.
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O Outro Lado da Memória
Title: O Outro Lado da Memória
Character: Self
Released: September 19, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Amigos, Sons e Palavras
Character: Self
Released: August 21, 2018
Type: TV
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Dê Lembranças a Todos
Title: Dê Lembranças a Todos
Character: Self
Released: July 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought about his Bahia, even far from it. His family, partners, friends and fans remember his history, which made him one of the pillars of Brazilian culture.
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Smetak
Title: Smetak
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 7, 2018
Type: Movie
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Tropicália: 50 Anos
Title: Tropicália: 50 Anos
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 4, 2017
Type: Movie
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Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
Title: Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism, and cinema. He was an active participant in the revolution of Tropicália and marginal art, which changed the course of Brazilian culture in the 1960s and 1970s, until he committed suicide on his 28th birthday.
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Title: O Nome Dela é Gal
Character: Self
Released: June 11, 2017
Type: TV
A four-part biography on the life of the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, from her humble beginning singing in the streets of Salvador, where she became friends with many artists who would be other great names in Brazilian music in the following decades to her 50th career anniversary in 2015.
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Title: Conversa com Bial
Character: Self
Released: May 3, 2017
Type: TV
With decades of experience of reporting and a curious spirit for the history of the other, Pedro Bial presents a wide space to listen, give opinions and multiply opinions.
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Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
Title: Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 2017
Type: Movie
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Axé: Music of a People
Title: Axé: Music of a People
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 2017
Type: Movie
Originally from Bahia and considered today one of the most globalised musical movements in the world, Axé is a musical rhythm that carries in its essence a good part of all the musical and cultural syncretism of Bahia. The documentary brings together interviews and archive images outlining the birth of Axé.
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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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Beard, Hair & Stache
Title: Beard, Hair & Stache
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Afonsinho, Paulo Cézar Caju and Nei Conceição started their careers in the mid-1960s, a time of strong political repression in Brazil. Originally teammates of a celebrated generation of the Botafogo football team superstars, they did not give up their freedom when the military dictatorship decided to take control of the field.
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Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony
Title: Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony
Character: Self
Released: August 5, 2016
Type: Movie
With fireworks forming the word “Rio” in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of “The Girl from Ipanema,” Rio de Janiero welcomed the world to the first Olympic Games in South America with a serious message underlying the celebration: Let’s take care of our planet.
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Yorimatã
Title: Yorimatã
Character: Self
Released: April 7, 2016
Type: Movie
The lives of Luhli and Lucina, two especially important artists in the alternative cultural scene during the 1970s. In a time when transgression, love and peace guided behavior, we discover the love of two women for art, their spiritual universe, their lives in community and their three-way relationship with photographer Luiz Fernando Borges da Fonseca.
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Title: Vamos Tocar
Character: Self
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: TV
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Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico
Title: Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico
Character: Self
Released: March 26, 2016
Type: Movie
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Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista
Title: Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista
Character: Self
Released: November 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Rogério Duarte is one of the most important names in Tropicália, a Brazilian cultural movement of the 1960s. The plastic artist was one of the first to publicly denounce the tortures committed in the military regime. During the dictatorship, its political action and its cultural achievements mobilized many artists and inspired a whole generation.
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Circo Voador - A Nave
Title: Circo Voador - A Nave
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1982, the Arpoador Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, received the first "incarnation" of Circo Voador, a venue for artists of diverse aspects showing their art to the public. Months later, Circo landed at Lapa, the city's most bohemian neighborhood. Today, more than three decades later, the venue has become a cultural reference in the country. This documentary is directed by Tainá Menezes and has testimonials from artists such as Gilberto Gil, Lobão, Evandro Mesquita and more than 50 personalities that were part of the history of Circo Voador.
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Two Friends, a Century of Music
Title: Two Friends, a Century of Music
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Two of the biggest names in 20th century pop music together on stage, accompanied by their guitars. In "Two Friends, A Century of Music", Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil celebrate their 50 years of career by retaking the partnership on stage. In simple and intimate arrangements, Gil and Caetano celebrate brilliant trajectories that began in the same place: Bahia. It was from the friendship that began at the time that they were students, that the two singers and composers gave origin to a partnership that, years later, would base one of the most expressive movements of Brazilian art, Tropicália.
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André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
Title: André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Based on the autobiography of noted music executive André Midani, André Midani — An Insider’s Story of Brazilian Music (2015) explores Brazilian music throughout his five-decade career through informal gatherings and jam sessions at his home, featuring Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben Jor, Gilberto Gil, and Marisa Monte, among other luminaries of the industry.
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Dominguinhos
Title: Dominguinhos
Character: Self
Released: May 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Through rare and precious footages and gigs with great artists such as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Hermeto Pascoal, Djavan, Nara Leao, Luiz Gonzaga, among many others, "Dominguinhos" reveals this genius of Brazilian music, creator of a deeply authentic, universal and contemporary work. The film values the sensory cinematic experience, a journey driven by Dominguinhos his own.
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Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
Title: Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
Character: Gilberto Gil
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".
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A Farra do Circo
Title: A Farra do Circo
Character: Self
Released: November 30, 2013
Type: Movie
This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.
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Viramundo
Title: Viramundo
Character: Self
Released: May 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Gilberto Gil is among Brazil's most famous musicians, having influenced an entire generation in South America and beyond. Now in his seventies, he is serving as Brazil's first black Minister of Culture. Preoccupied with many realities of the modern world, such as racism and poverty, he embarks on a tour through the southern hemisphere— from aboriginal communities in Australia and the townships of South Africa, to the Brazilian Amazon— seeking to promote the power of cultural diversity in a globalized world.
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Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia
Title: Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Festive Land examines one of the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations in the world, the week-long Carnival that brings more than two million people to the streets of Salvador, the capital of Bahia, in northeastern Brazil. Carnival is the most expressive showcase of the unique cultural richness of Bahia, where African culture has survived, prospered, and evolved, mixing with other Brazilian influences to create forms found nowhere else in the world. The film captures this unique cultural energy through extraordinary footage of musical performances, dances, religious manifestations, and street celebrations. At the same time, Carnival reflects the racial and social tensions of Brazil's heterogeneous society. At first glance there appear to be two million people chaotically mixed on the streets, but a more detailed look reveals how patterns of segregation driven by racial, social and economic differences continue in Carnival.
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Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now!
Title: Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now!
Character: Self
Released: November 16, 2012
Type: Movie
A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. The production brings a mix of interviews, concerts, artistic interventions and actors in small sketches. An intersection of the social and artistic contexts of 68 with the current one.
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Tropicália
Title: Tropicália
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.
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Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust
Title: Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust
Character: Self
Released: March 23, 2012
Type: Movie
The film follows the birth of Jorge Mautner up to his 17 years. He was born in Brazil shortly after his parents fled the Holocaust. Raised by a nanny who introduced him to Candomblé, Mautner became a precursor of the Tropicália, contributing to the construction of the identity of Brazilian music.
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Aperana Street 52
Title: Aperana Street 52
Character: Self
Released: January 20, 2012
Type: Movie
In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,
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Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano
Title: Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano
Character: Self
Released: December 23, 2011
Type: Movie
Year-end special brought together three interpreters of Brazilian popular music - Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Ivete Sangalo - to honour the Brazilian woman.
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Title: Músicos de Latinoamérica
Character: Self
Released: November 8, 2011
Type: TV
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O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois
Title: O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois
Character: Self
Released: July 27, 2011
Type: Movie
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Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo
Title: Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 2011
Type: Movie
Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the military dictatorship the befell in Brazil from 1964 to 1985. The film presents the events of the prison, life in exile and the return to the country.
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2012: Time for Change
Title: 2012: Time for Change
Character: Self
Released: October 8, 2010
Type: Movie
2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This can be achieved through a personal and global change of consciousness and the systemic implementation of ecological design.
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A Night in 67
Title: A Night in 67
Character: Self
Released: July 30, 2010
Type: Movie
If you thought TV shows in which audiences and juries judge musical acts were a relatively new phenomenon, you'd better think again. In the 1970s, such "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil. They were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of elimination rounds. They also formed the springboard for the career of many a big-name star, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Roberto Carlos and Gilberto Gil. Appearing on such a program was no cakewalk, however: audiences could be as wild in their condemnation as in their appreciation of an artist. Extensive archive footage (including performances and behind-the-scenes interviews) from a turbulent final of the Festival of Brazilian Popular Music one evening in 1967 paints a fascinating picture, not only of the transformation of Brazilian music into real "festival" music, but also of a society starting to buck against the yoke of military rule.
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Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1
Title: Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1
Character: Self
Released: July 15, 2010
Type: Movie
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Gilberto Gil, the Power of Music
Title: Gilberto Gil, the Power of Music
Character: Self
Released: February 5, 2010
Type: Movie
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Gilberto Gil – Fé Na Festa
Title: Gilberto Gil – Fé Na Festa
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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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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Beyond Ipanema
Title: Beyond Ipanema
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2009
Type: Movie
This documentary from filmmaker Guto Barra takes you beyond the 1960s bossa nova hit "The Girl from Ipanema" to explore how samba, Brazilectro and other Brazilian music styles have long captivated audiences and influenced musicians around the world. Mixing archival footage, fresh performances and interviews with leaders in the global music scene, Barra examines why Brazil's music consistently transcends boundaries of time and musical taste.
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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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Loki: Arnaldo Baptista
Title: Loki: Arnaldo Baptista
Character: Self
Released: June 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Loki brings the trajectory of Arnaldo Baptista from childhood, passing through the most successful phase as leader of the Mutantes, marriage to singer Rita Lee and then separation. He also goes through the depression that devastated his life after the group ended and that led him to attempt suicide, his solo career, rapprochement with his brother and member of the Mutantes, Sérgio Dias, culminating in the band's return in 2006.
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RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
Title: RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
Character: Self
Released: November 20, 2008
Type: Movie
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about the "the changing concept of copyright" directed by Brett Gaylor.
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Permanent Pan-Cinema
Title: Permanent Pan-Cinema
Character: Self (voice)
Released: November 14, 2008
Type: Movie
Documentary about Brazilian poet Waly Salomão, for whom life was always a fictional film and poetry was a way to expose any naturalistic pretension. His convictions affected many friends like Antonio Cícero, Caetano Veloso and the film's director Carlos Nader, who shoot Waly for 15 years. But how does one do a documentary about someone who believes everything is fiction?
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The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Title: The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Character: Self
Released: July 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.
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Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal
Title: Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of Brazilian culture over the last four decades. Author of songs such as "Vapor Barato" and "Movimento dos Barcos", a partner in crime of poet Waly Salomão, guitar player and songwriter for Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso, actor and author of soundtracks in Nelson Pereira dos Santos' films, a personal friend of visual artists Lygia Clarke and Hélio Oiticica, but, first and foremost, someone who dreams of seeing the word "love" in the Brazilian flag.
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Cidade do Samba
Title: Cidade do Samba
Character: Self
Released: September 4, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Por Toda Minha Vida
Character: Self
Released: December 28, 2006
Type: TV
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O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
Title: O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
Character: Self
Released: August 19, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian press, produced daily for six months, in the 1960s. The newspaper spoke of culture, politics and education through satires and prominent figures in the cultural scene of the time passed through him. Archive scenes and music from the period seek to reconstitute the spirit of the 68-generation. The film has the participation of personalities such as Ziraldo, Zuenir Ventura, Arnaldo Jabor, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Carlos Heitor Cony, Fernando Gabeira, Betty Faria, Hugo Carvana, among others.
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Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
Title: Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
Released: June 15, 2006
Type: Movie
The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which the singer was the muse and one of the main interpreters, and reaching the present day.
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Fabricating Tom Zé
Title: Fabricating Tom Zé
Character: Self
Released: June 7, 2006
Type: Movie
The life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary shows a detailed vision of Tom Zé's personal musical universe, in which a guitar and a vacuum cleaner have the same melodic importance. In intimate interviews, he narrates different parts of his life and tells us about his musical debut in the early 60s, his downfall during the 70s, and his 90s comeback.
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Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra
Title: Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 2006
Type: Movie
Afroreggae Cultural Group DVD containing a concert and a documentary about the group's social and cultural work at the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.
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Vinicius de Moraes
Title: Vinicius de Moraes
Character: Self - Singer 'Formosa'
Released: November 1, 2005
Type: Movie
To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music and, above all, an enlightened character of the Brazilian cultural history - director Miguel Faria Jr. gathered an incomparable cast of partners, singers, friends and rare images from the archives recalling Vinícius’ genial simplicity, with the spontaneity, the humor, and the freedom of a person chatting over a bar table, exactly how the eternal Vinícius would enjoy.
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Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume
Title: Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume
Character: Self
Released: August 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.
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Looking for Black Orpheus
Title: Looking for Black Orpheus
Character: Self
Released: May 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today.
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Phono 73: A Country and its Music
Title: Phono 73: A Country and its Music
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 2, 2005
Type: Movie
The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest against the curtailment of freedom of expression in those dark years of the dictatorship. With the images rescued in 2005, revealing exciting moments, containing the incredible presentations, it brings a team of all greatness and the opportunity to understand the path that Brazilian music has taken to the present day.
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Gilberto Gil : Electroacústico
Title: Gilberto Gil : Electroacústico
Character: Self
Released: December 27, 2004
Type: Movie
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MTV ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo
Title: MTV ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 2004
Type: Movie
Live performance by brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo recorded at Salvador, Brazil, presented by MTV.
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Born To Be Blind
Title: Born To Be Blind
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 2003
Type: Movie
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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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Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
Title: Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia), the artists involved decided to get together again for limited concerts in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in December 2002. The film documents the group's live performances, rehearsals and interviews.
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Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought
Title: Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Life and legacy of Agostinho da Silva. Traversing the biographical journey, the life and work of the Luso-Brazilian philosopher, this work has testimonies from himself and various personalities of Portugal and Brazil that allow us to unravel his personality and multifaceted thought.
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Viva São João!
Title: Viva São João!
Character: Self
Released: June 14, 2002
Type: Movie
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Gilberto Gil: Kaya N'Gandaya
Title: Gilberto Gil: Kaya N'Gandaya
Character: Self
Released: May 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Gilberto Gil's 2002 album combines Brazilian pop with roots reggae. Featuring 11 of Bob Marley's greatest hits recorded in Tuff Gong Studios, Kingston, Jamaica. Includes special guest appearances from members of Bob Marley & The Wailers group. 16 tracks. Warner Music Latina.
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Title: Desejos de Mulher
Character: Self
Released: January 21, 2002
Type: TV
Fashion designer Andréa Vargas finds out the hard way she is adopted. The relationship with her sister Júlia had always been difficult, since childhood, and the antagonism grew when Júlia came between Andréa and her first true love, Diogo. But the worst is still to come: her first assistant in her atelier, Selma, is having an affair with her husband Bruno.
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Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico
Title: Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 2002
Type: Movie
Documentary about amazing Brazilian musician Rogério Duprat, main orchestrator of Tropicália, his rehearsals with Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. There's also the first performance of his 1958 "5 Pieces for a Solo Cello" and pieces of the only recording of "Organismo", serial work inspired by a Décio Pignatari's poem.
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Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
Title: Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996. Gil recalls his artistic trajectory, recalls striking facts and reveals some intimacies. Completely filmed on film, it includes great successes of the artist like Madalena, Cores Vivas, Vamos Fugir, Procissão and Expresso 2222.
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Samba Riachão
Title: Samba Riachão
Character: Self
Released: November 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary about samba musician from Bahia Clementino Rodrigues, aka Riachão.
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Brazil's Maria Bethânia
Title: Brazil's Maria Bethânia
Character: Self
Released: August 24, 2001
Type: Movie
This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the work, the records and the career of this great lady of Brazilian music are well known, the starting point, the training, the first years remained till now in a vaguely legendary and imprecise blur. Thanks to many investigations that concern as many places as times, thanks to journeys back in time through the towns and regions, the film seeks the origins of Maria Bethânia’s voice and style. Helped and led by Bethânia herself, with the assistance of Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque, the two princes of Brazilian music, along with the complicity of the great Gilberto Gil, the author is allowed to go to the first context : the North-East. In the family home in Santo Amaro, the film finally touches the childhood of Maria Bethânia – and her brother Caetano, and this mysterious point – from which the music radiates.
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Toquinho
Title: Toquinho
Character: Self
Released: February 18, 2001
Type: Movie
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O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho
Title: O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 2001
Type: Movie
The documentary presents an overview of Vladimir Carvalho's cinematographic career, from the very beginning, as a co-writer of “Aruanda” (1960), directed by Linduarte Noronha, to the present day. With Vladimir himself as the main narrator and illustrated by scenes from his films, the documentary also features interviews with Gilberto Gil, Orlando Senna, Arnaldo Carillo, Dácia Ibiapina, Fernando Duarte, Sérgio Moriconi, among others.
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Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste
Title: Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A documentary on the amazing Brazilian music movement known as Tropicália.
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Title: O Povo Brasileiro
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 2000
Type: TV
Directed by Isa Grinspum Ferraz, the series O Povo Brasileiro proposes a deep dive into the history of Brazil to talk about historical, social and cultural formations that constitute the identities of the Brazilian people. The production approaches from aspects of the native peoples to the formation of Brazil as a national unit, in a recreation of the literary narrative of the homonymous work written by the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro.
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I Want
Title: I Want
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Two kids merrily play make-believe inside their house, unaware of the inequality that exists in the world.
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Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Title: Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Character: Self - Narrator
Released: December 31, 1998
Type: Movie
Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.
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Ed Mort
Title: Ed Mort
Character: Silva 5
Released: May 5, 1997
Type: Movie
A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.
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Bahia de Todos os Sambas
Title: Bahia de Todos os Sambas
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of these great names in Bahia's music.
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Jorge Amado
Title: Jorge Amado
Character: Self
Released: August 4, 1996
Type: Movie
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The Mandarin
Title: The Mandarin
Character: Sinhô
Released: November 6, 1995
Type: Movie
The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.
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Acústico MTV: Gilberto Gil
Title: Acústico MTV: Gilberto Gil
Character: Self
Released: April 8, 1994
Type: Movie
The special record for the series Acoustic MTV meets classic in the repertoire of Gilberto Gil as "Stage" tern "," Weather King ", among others. Also check the versions of" The New "and" Sampa ". Provenance: National Studio : Warner Music (Video) Original Title: Gilberto Gil - Acoustic Color: Color Release Year: 2001 Cast: GILBERTO GIL Recommendation: Region free DVD: Multi-Region
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Maldito Popular Brasileiro: Arnaldo Dias Baptista
Title: Maldito Popular Brasileiro: Arnaldo Dias Baptista
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: Movie
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Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
Title: Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28.
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Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
Title: Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 1989
Type: Movie
A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.
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Ôrí
Title: Ôrí
Character: Self
Released: May 2, 1989
Type: Movie
A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.
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Hunting Season
Title: Hunting Season
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and cultural and artistic figures such, such as Zé Celso, Jorge Mautner, Roberto Piva and others.
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Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion
Title: Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.
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Title: Criança Esperança
Character: Self
Released: December 28, 1986
Type: TV
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Talking Cinema
Title: Talking Cinema
Character: Party Guest
Released: December 11, 1986
Type: Movie
A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts.
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Infinita Tropicália
Title: Infinita Tropicália
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop art and the concretism. Twenty years later, this film revisits the movement and shows that Tropicalismo will never die.
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Making of - Quilombo
Title: Making of - Quilombo
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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Corações a Mil
Title: Corações a Mil
Released: March 10, 1983
Type: Movie
University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs and performances, while ultimately falling in love with one of his groupies.
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Gilbertianas Brasileiras
Title: Gilbertianas Brasileiras
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Brasil
Title: Brasil
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 1981
Type: Movie
João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.
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Title: Grandes Nomes
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1980
Type: TV
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Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music
Title: Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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Os Doces Bárbaros
Title: Os Doces Bárbaros
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 1977
Type: Movie
The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, who formed the group with the name of Doces Bárbaros (Sweet Barbarians), at the suggestion of Bethânia. Conceived to present the shows of the live album that would be released (Doces Bárbaros - Live), the documentary changed of tone when registering the arrest and judgment of Gilberto Gil and of a companion by possession of drugs. Gil was forced to go to a detox clinic, and only went out to participate in the programmed shows.
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Gilberto Gil - Refazenda
Title: Gilberto Gil - Refazenda
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
In 1975 Gilberto Gil was releasing his album 'Refazenda', and talk a little about it in this interview.
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Bahia de Todos os Santos
Title: Bahia de Todos os Santos
Character: Self
Released: June 12, 1974
Type: Movie
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Álbum de Música
Title: Álbum de Música
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Portrait of various figures in Brazilian pop music.
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Passe Livre
Title: Passe Livre
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Demiurge
Title: The Demiurge
Character:
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada", Mautner says. He also affirms that the work focuses a lot on the longing for Brazil, on the will that the exiled had to return to their homeland. The idea came from conversations between the musician and his old father, "always talking about the pre-Socratics", he recalls. Glauber Rocha states that "The Demiurge" is the best film "of" and "about" exile.
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O Tempo e o Som
Title: O Tempo e o Som
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Bahia, For Example
Title: Bahia, For Example
Character: Self
Released: November 24, 1969
Type: Movie
Through folklore manifestations and diverse artistic expressions, the film is a document that exalts and honors the Bahian culture.
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Gilberto Gil
Title: Gilberto Gil
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie