Jorge Amado — Playwright (4)

Movie

Tent of Miracles (1977)
Tenda dos Milagres Douban
other title: 奇迹之蓬 / Tenda dos Milagres
阿马多的名作。 This Brazilian satire is by one of the founders of the Cinema Novo filmmaking movement, Nelson Pereira dos Santos. The film chronicles the chaos that results when a prominent American Nobel Prize winner arrives in Bahía, with nothing but praise on his lips for a long-forgotten local writer-scientist named Pedro Archanjo. When the media finally discover who Archanjo was and what he espoused, they are completely horrified to discover that he was a man who believed that the way to improve the lot of humanity was for people of various races to marry and have children by one another in mixed-race marriages. Further, Archanjo clearly acted on his beliefs. The rampant racism of Brazilians, which is almost never discussed, is completely exposed. Flashbacks show Brazilians listening with approving interest to talks by Nazi race-theoreticians in the 1930s. In the present, the American is seen to be applying Archanjo's theories, by having an affair with a local mestizo woman.

Movie

Captains of the Sands (2011)
Capitães da Areia Douban
Cecília Amado / Guy Gonçalves actor: Jean Luis Amorim / Ana Graciela …
other title: 沙上的船长们 / Capitães da Areia …
Salvador, Bahia - Brazil, alive with the charm of the 1950s, A gang of street kids known as "Capitães da Areia" (Captains of the Sands) are hunted like common criminals. As we draw closer, we see that they are just children, almost a hundred of them, completely abandoned. But they won't be children for long: by the end of this odyssey, many will have become men. A year in the lives of these boys, in which they have incredible adventures, the most wonderful dreams, visit hell, discover sex, death, freedom!

Movie

Rose of the Winds (1957)
Die Windrose WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
尤里斯·伊文思 Joris Ivens / 雅尼克·贝隆 … actor: Angela Brunner / Aracy Cardoso …
other title: 指南针 / Die Windrose …
An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.