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Nelson Pereira dos Santos (b. 22 October 1928 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian movie director. He directed movies such as Vidas Secas (Barren Lives), based on the book with the same name by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos. He also directed Rio 40°(his first feature film) which was released in 1955. The film is a chronicle of life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and it influenced several other directors, spurring the Cinema Novo moment.
His most well-known film outside of Brazil is Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, 1971). It was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival.[1] The film takes place in the sixteenth century and details the alleged cannibalistic practices of the (now extinct) indigenous Tupinamba warrior tribe against the French and Portuguese colonizers of the Brazilian littoral. The film is something of a black comedy about European colonialism—one that makes satirical use of the Brazilian modernist trope of Antropofagia ("cultural cannibalism"), then recently revived by the Tropicalismo movement of the 1960s—as well as a bitter commentary on the historical genocide of the indigenous tribes in Latin America and the gradual destruction of their civilization.
Recently, dos Santos has started production on a movie called Brasília 18%, which explores some of the darker aspects of contemporary Brazilian politics such as political corruption, the murder of trial witnesses, and money laundering.
Santos belongs to the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2006.
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Born
Monday, 22 October 1928
Died
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Cinema Novo | Self / Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | 2016 |
Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema | Self | 2015 |
Crítico | Self / Himself | 2008 |
Oscar Niemeyer: A Vida é um Sopro | Self | 2007 |
Glauber o Filme, Labirinto do Brasil | Self | 2003 |
At the Edge of the Earth | Self | 2001 |
For All: Springboard to Victory | Almirante Jones | 1998 |
Que Viva Glauber! | 1991 | |
Jardim de Guerra | 1968 | |
Mandacaru Vermelho | Augusto | 1961 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Cinema Novo | Self / Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | 2016 |
Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema | Self | 2015 |
Crítico | Self / Himself | 2008 |
Oscar Niemeyer: A Vida é um Sopro | Self | 2007 |
Glauber o Filme, Labirinto do Brasil | Self | 2003 |
At the Edge of the Earth | Self | 2001 |
For All: Springboard to Victory | Almirante Jones | 1998 |
Que Viva Glauber! | 1991 | |
Jardim de Guerra | 1968 | |
Mandacaru Vermelho | Augusto | 1961 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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A Luz do Tom | 2013 |
The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim | 2012 |
Brasília 18% | 2006 |
Raízes do Brasil: Uma Cinebiografia de Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda | 2004 |
Meu Compadre, Zé Ketti | 2001 |
Century of Cinema | 1995 |
A Terceira Margem do Rio | 1993 |
Jubiabá | 1987 |
Memórias do Cárcere | 1984 |
A Missa do Galo | 1982 |
The Highway of Life | 1980 |
Tenda dos Milagres | 1977 |
The Amulet of Ogum | 1974 |
Quem é Beta? | 1972 |
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman | 1971 |
A Very Crazy Asylum | 1970 |
Hunger for Love | 1968 |
El justicero | 1967 |
Barren Lives | 1963 |
The Golden Mouth | 1963 |
Mandacaru Vermelho | 1961 |
Rio, Zona Norte | 1957 |
Rio, 40 Degrees | 1955 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Raízes do Brasil: Uma Cinebiografia de Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda | 2004 |
Memórias do Cárcere | 1984 |
A Missa do Galo | 1982 |
Tenda dos Milagres | 1977 |
As Aventuras Amorosas de Um Padeiro | 1975 |
The Amulet of Ogum | 1974 |
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman | 1971 |
A Very Crazy Asylum | 1970 |
El justicero | 1967 |
A Public Opinion | 1967 |
The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga | 1965 |
Barren Lives | 1963 |
Mandacaru Vermelho | 1961 |
The Grand Moment | 1958 |
Rio, Zona Norte | 1957 |
Rio, 40 Degrees | 1955 |