Oswald de Andrade

Oswald de Andrade

Nacimiento : 1890-01-11, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Muerte : 1954-10-22

Historia

Oswald de Andrade, in full José Oswald De Sousa Andrade, was a poet, playwright, and novelist, social agitator and revolutionary, one of the leaders of Brazil’s Modernist movement in the arts.

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Oswald de Andrade

Películas

Travelling as 4 Gares
Original Story
The director films the trains, and the unusual, ruined and desolate places they travel through. The landscape is deconstructed through a rapid succession of shots, and becomes an abstract motif: that which was a ruin thus becomes an Andalusian mosaic or Impressionist painting.
Miramar
Novel
Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life.
Oswaldianas
Original Story
Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
Perigo Negro
Original Story
Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer player who has his career spoiled by a unscrupulous gambler
O Brasil, Os Índios e, Finalmente, A USP
Self
The Brazilwood Man
Original Story
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.
The King of the Candle
Original Story
Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.
The King of the Candle
Theatre Play
Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.
Os Condenados
Novel
In São Paulo, during the 1920s, a woman who is loved by a telegraphist and seduced by a slacker ends up in prostitution.