Joaquim Pedro de Andrade — Director (14)

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Macunaima (1969)
Macunaíma
other title: Macunaíma / 정글의 괴물 …
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.

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Cat Skin (1962)
Couro de Gato IMDb TMDB Douban
other title: 猫皮 / Couro de Gato …
巴西电影教父Joaquim Pedro de Andrade(《丛林怪兽》)1961年短片 In Rio de Janeiro, near to the Carnival, a group of boys from the slums in the hills chase cats to sell them to make a small percussion drum called "tamborim" and raise some money.

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The Conspirators (1972)
Os Inconfidentes WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
other title: 密谋者 / Os Inconfidentes …
In 1972, Brazil was in the darkest days of the military dictatorship that had seized power eight years before. Working for Italian television, de Andrade embarked on a re-creation of the Inconfidencia Mineira, the Mineiran Conspiracy, fledgling groups of rebels based in Minas Gerais in the late 18th century who questioned Portuguese colonial authority. The film alternates between scenes of clandestine meetings and later interrogations and even torture a pointed reference to what was happening in Brazil at the time. At the center of these events is Tiradentes (beautifully played by Jose Wilker), a lower class rebel whose defiance of the authorities at his trial would make him a national symbol. Yet the suffering of Tiradentes allows the better-connected upper-class members of the conspiracy to go largely unpunished, another aspect of the story with uncomfortable relevance in the 70s. The Conspirators is living history in the most exciting sense of the term, a look at the past that clearly becomes a mirror for the present.

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Erotic Stories (1977)
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Joaquim Pedro de Andrade / Eduardo Escorel … actor: 克里斯蒂娜·阿谢 / Xandó Batista
other title: 情色故事 / Contos Eróticos
四位巴西新浪潮导演联合创作的一部短片集锦。其实不算很“情色”,倒是故事都很值得回味。 Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijao" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Tres Virgens" (The Three Virgins) three spinsters are influenced by the behaviour of their teenager niece, whom they are lodging. In "O Arremate" (The Purchase) a colonist turns his virgin daughter in to a landowner, to have his debts forgiven. And, finally, in "Vereda Tropical" (Tropical Trail), a man becomes sexually obsessed by a watermelon, to the point of having sexual intercourse with it. The stories are based on prize-winner short stories, from a Playboy contest.

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Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (1962)
Garrincha - Alegria do Povo Douban
other title: 加林查 / Garrincha - Alegria do Povo …
纪录片关于巴西足球天才 - 加林查. 63年柏林电影节金熊奖提名. Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer's history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic scenes of 1958 and 1962 World Cup. Garrincha (1933-1983) was a very original and talented player, having curved legs. Women and alcohol were his passion, and the cause of his later decadence. After a glorious career, he died in financial misery,

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The man of the Brazil Tree (1982)
O Homem do Pau-Brasil Douban
瓦基姆·佩德罗·德·安德拉德 actor: 朱莉安娜·卡耐诺·库尼亚 / 伊塔拉·南迪 …
other title: 巴西树人 / O Homem do Pau-Brasil
Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half

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Macunaima (1969)
Macunaíma
瓦基姆·佩德罗·德·安德拉德 actor: 戈兰德·奥特洛 / 保罗·宙斯 …
other title: Macunaíma / 丛林怪兽 …
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.

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Brasilia Contradictions of a City (1968)
Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade IMDb TMDB Douban
other title: 巴西利亚,一座城市的困惑 / Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade …
In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)