Caetano Veloso — Actor (11)
The Mandarin (1995) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
O Mandarim
other title: O Mandarim
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.
Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust (2012) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Jorge Mautner: O Filho do Holocausto
other title: Jorge Mautner: O Filho do Holocausto / Jorge Mautner - O Filho do Holocausto
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.
Sermões (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Sermões: A História de Antônio Vieira
other title: Sermões: A História de Antônio Vieira / 布道——安东尼奥维埃拉的历史
Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.
Axé: Music of a People (2017) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Axé: Canto do Povo de um Lugar
other title: Axé - Canto do Povo de um Lugar / Axé: Canto do Povo de um Lugar
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.
Welcome to São Paulo (2004) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Bem-Vindo a São Paulo
other title: Bem-Vindo a São Paulo / 欢迎来到圣保罗
All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.
Pitanga (2016) [Movie] TMDB Eggplant.place
Pitanga
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.
热带主义运动 (2012) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Tropicália
other title: Tropicália
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.