João Batista de Andrade
1939 (84 года)O Homem Que Virou Suco
João Batista de Andrade
José Dumont, Célia Maracajá
Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.
The Man That Was Turned Into Juice
Wilsinho Galiléia
João Batista de Andrade
Cláudia de Castro, Paulo Eudes
Reconstruction of the life of Wilsinho, who was a dangerous criminal by the time he was 14. After getting arrested multiple times, he finally was killed by the police at the home of his girlfriend Geni.
Wilsinho Galiléia
Vlado: Trinta Anos Depois
João Batista de Andrade
Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, Aldir Blanc
The documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been tortured and murdered during the repression years of Brazilian military dictatorship.
Vlado: Thirty Years Later
O País dos Tenentes
João Batista de Andrade
Paulo Autran, Carlos Gregório
With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup.
O País dos Tenentes
Céu Aberto
João Batista de Andrade
Tancredo Neves
When Brazil finally came out from its dictatorship period, Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president after 20 years of military rule, got ill with a strange infection and finally died on 21 April 1985 before taking office. Knowing political stability could get compromised, before dying, he tried to look healthy, and the press also helped with the farce. The documentary is about his slow public agony and death.
Open Skies
O Tronco
João Batista de Andrade
Antônio Fagundes, Ângelo Antônio
Vicente, a tax collector, is sent to a distant region to defy the dominion of Melo, a powerful landowner. When Melo's henchmen burn down the collector's office building, the government retaliates by deploying soldiers, overseen by Carvalho, a hard-headed judge. Carvalho orders the soldiers to invade Melo's land, which prompts the start of a full-blown war.
O Tronco
Migrantes
João Batista de Andrade
Director João Batista de Andrade was filming a documentary about migrants coming from Northeast Brazil to São Paulo in search of a better living. His intention was to give voice to these underprivileged and homeless people. While preparing to interview a man who lived under a bridge, a passer-by interfered, starting an argument about the role of people from other states in the development of São Paulo and the rural problem in the Northeast.
Migrantes
Paulicéia Fantástica
João Batista de Andrade, Jean-Claude Bernardet
Paulo César Peréio, Etty Fraser
Documentary wich tries to capture the iconoclastic spirit of the 1922 Week of Modern Art, to tell about the beginning of cinema made in the city of São Paulo.
Paulicéia Fantástica