The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martim Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."
Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Frida
A tireless and incorrigible seducer looks for - and seems to find - the woman of his life.
Selma
A man, trying to get a job, meets a lot of unusual characters on his way.
Based on a radio show that was broadcast for 11 years (1947-1958) and ended only when the host and creator, the genius Henrique Foreis "Almirante" Domingues, had a stroke. There were hundreds of horror stories, supposedly true, sent by listeners from all corners of the country, radiophoned and broadcast by Rádio Tupi in Rio de Janeiro. It became a book in 1951 (reissued in 1984), a film in 1969 and a TV show in 1994-1995, broadcast by the extinct Rede Manchete.
Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find out about him, Antônio and his wife are both targeted and pursued by the criminals.
Norma Suely
A decadent hooker, her pimp and the bordello's gay cleaner fight over the gigolo's missing money, with the utmost mental cruelty.
Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for her film, but ends up being arrested and tortured as his torturers suspect he's involved in a plot to overthrow the militar government.
Sara
Главный герой Пауль Мартинс, анархист и идеалист, по профессии — журналист, пишущий стихи, борется против популистского губернатора и консервативного президента Порфирия Диаса. В этом его поддерживают революционные силы. Мартинс мучается, так как эти два коррумпированных политических деятеля были в прошлом его друзьями, и были избраны при его моральной поддержке.
When a dying man receives a kiss from a bereaved man who tries to save him, the man is jailed as a homosexual. He is released from jail, but his life has been ruined by the incident -- and the man eventually is killed by his own father-in-law. The kiss that resulted in the eventual persecution and death of the man is never shown in this plodding, downbeat drama.
Pureza
Moradora do Morro
Men work in a quarry on the edge of a hill where a slum is located, of which they are residents. The slope is blown up, advancing to the land near the shacks. Slum dwellers are warned that new explosions can cause damage. The community decides to place itself on the slope, preventing another explosion; without attitude, the foreman gives up on blowing up the hill.
Sex Worker
Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.
Berenice Bellington
The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungle to pay homage to them.
(segment "Pedreira de São Diego")
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
Three men who never met each other are hired by a mysterious client to carry out a daring bank robbery.
A young woman obsessed with true crime overhears two men in a restaurant plotting a murder.
Inesita
The story of the confusion experienced by Aparicio Boamorte who works in the Zoo and has a giraffe as a confidante to vent the scolding he takes of all the people with whom he relates.
Rosa
Белым громадам ультрасовременных домов и фешенебельным дворцам противопоставлены развалившиеся хибары, сколоченные из фанеры и жести, грязь и нищета. Это фавеллы - трущобы Рио-де-Жанейро. Здесь живет простой и веселый трудовой народ города. О жизни этих людей, о социальных контрастах города рассказывает фильм.
Marta
A poor girl must find the money to pay for her blind sister's eyesight operation.
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
