Elza Soares
出生 : 1930-07-23, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
死亡 : 2022-01-20
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Dom Salvador & Abolição is a documentary about jazz pianist and composer Dom Salvador, who have been playing for 42 years at The River Café in Brooklyn. One of the architects of Bossa Nova in Brazil and a busy studio session musician and arranger, during the 60’s, Salvador played with the country's best. The man who is credited to be the pioneer of many musical styles, a name in more than a thousand records and the leader of the seminal band Abolition. After recording only one album, Salvador abandons a promising and successful journey with the band to pursue his passion for jazz, moving to New York in the early 70’s.
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Working as a TV host of an important political campaign for mayor, Luisa suffers with the professional relations with her co-workers. It’s the last week before the first round of local elections and Luisa, away from her hometown and family, discovers a serious scandal that could jeopardize the entire election. Not only must she now decide her fate, but that of an entire city.
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Between 2009 and 2012, filmmaker Cristiano Abud’s team followed the Brazilian samba musician Wilson das Neves. The result is this documentary, which recaptures the trajectory of Wilson, considered the greatest samba drummer of the 20th century.
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From his origins as a poet to his success as a singer and composer, Arnaldo Antunes revisits the most remarkable moments of his career.
Brazilian icon Elza Soares shines again.
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Being responsible for all stages of the production of an album, Deck contributed to the success of artists such as Pitty, Sorriso Maroto and Cachorro Grande. The film “Tudo Pela Música” tells the story of this business and family saga - João, his wife and son, Rafael Ramos, run the company - and offers a good overview of the Brazilian music market. Testimonials from record company executives, competitors, artists and the family itself make viewers immerse themselves in the history of the music industry in recent years and its transformations.
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What is it to be crazy? What does it mean to be normal? Was madness a disease or a form of expression for the human soul? A disturbing and exciting dive in one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in operation in Latin America!
Music about becoming women in the contemporary world, their emancipation and struggles
Elza Soares
A documentary about Brazilian singer Elza Soares and her long career singing samba and jazz.
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A documentary about Brazilian singer Elza Soares and her long career singing samba and jazz.
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An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and desire is an antidote to grumpy old men and women everywhere.
A musical documentary and tribute about "choro", an older style of playing that forms the foundation of all Brazilian composition, including samba and bossa nova.
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Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.
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When Brazilian multi-sport club completed its 100th anniversary, this documentary narrated its story by interviewing some of its most important sportsmen ever, in football, basketball, rowing.
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A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts.
Polidoro is a naive farmer. Convinced by his daughter and son-in-law, he sells his farm to Agenor, a swindler and friend of his son-in-law. Through a trap, Polidoro travels to Bariloche while his farm is sold illicitly to third parties.
Old and conservative industrialist goes to São Paulo to visit his children, who are locally in charge of his business. When he finds out they're having more fun than work, at first he is shocked, but gradually starts to join in.
Story of a sausage salesman, a simple man struggling with family problems.