Dionísio Azevedo
1922 - 1994
Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
Andrea Tonacci
Gésio Amadeu, Dionísio Azevedo
A film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and then the conflicts that break out as they tour Iran and France with a performance of Calderon's autos sacramentales. A problem with a scenery prop sparks a crisis in the group and the film chronicles this disaster.
Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
O Pagador de Promessas
Anselmo Duarte
Leonardo Villar, Glória Menezes
Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross - like Jesus - all the way from his city to Saint Bárbara's church, in the state capital. Upon the recovery of his donkey, Zé leaves on his journey. He makes it to the church, but the priest refuses to accept the cross once he discovers the context of Zé's promise.
The Given Word
O Santo Milagroso
Carlos Coimbra
Leonardo Villar, Dionísio Azevedo
A pastor and a priest compete for the religious leadership of the population of a small town. When the pastor tries to prevent his sister's involvement with the sacristan, he accidentally starts the rumor that the church houses a miraculous statue of St. Francis.
O Santo Milagroso
Cidade Ameaçada
Roberto Farias
Jardel Filho, Eva Wilma
Based on true events, the film tells the story of Brazilian outlaw Promessinha, one of the most famous and feared criminals of his time, depicting his crimes and cruelty, until his death confronting the police.
Cidade Ameaçada
Sedução - A Mulher Fatal
Fauzi Mansur
Sandra Bréa, David Cardoso
An wealthy Italian immigrant from São Paulo, watches closely the suitors of his daughter Fiametta, whose two previous husbands "suffered accidents" because they did not bear good children. She can only get pregnant of someone who, like her, bears the blood of the rare K factor.
Sedução - A Mulher Fatal
Longo Caminho da Morte
Júlio Calasso Jr.
Othon Bastos, Dionísio Azevedo
The life and death of Colonel Orestes, a decadent coffee farmer, spanning three generations between despair, hallucinations, and the help of three different wives. The city, the synthesis of modernization, definitively buries the oligarch making buildings on the ground that had previously made the character's prestige.
Long Way of Death
A Primeira Missa
Lima Barreto
Roberto Alrean, Dionísio Azevedo
Meant principally for a sympathetic audience, whether Catholic or not, this routine story about a priest's receiving the call to the cloth may be a bit slow and theatrical for some viewers. Directed by Lima Barreto, the tale is told in a series of flashbacks as the priest remembers how he was transformed as a child into a person willing to give his life in service of the church and his God. Barreto also scripted the story, which in the end, may be too filled with religious platitudes and preachy overtones to effectively convey its message.
The First Mass
Lampião, Rei do Cangaço
Carlos Coimbra
Leonardo Villar, Vanja Orico
The story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the path to become Lampião, the greatest leader of the cangaceiros - bandits who roamed the Northeast of Brazil until the late 1930s.
Lampião, King of the Badlands
