Antônio Abujamra

Antônio Abujamra

Рождение : 1932-09-15, Ourinhos, São Paulo, Brazil

Смерть : 2015-04-28

История

Antônio Abujamra, OMC was an award-winning Brazilian theater director, actor and presenter, being one of the first to introduce the theatrical methods of Bertolt Brecht and Roger Planchon on Brazilian stages. He was known for his irreverence, his skits, and his sour, critical humor toward social taboos.

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Antônio Abujamra

Фильмы

The Author
William is a middle-aged writer who lives alone in a small, untidy house and can't settle down doing what he loves. Confused and distressed, he flirts with death. With the rope around his neck, about to jump off a chair, the man looks around at his house and sees little “magical” objects that remind him of his past and passions, thus making a decision.
Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Self
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Com a Palavra, Arnaldo Antunes
Self
From his origins as a poet to his success as a singer and composer, Arnaldo Antunes revisits the most remarkable moments of his career.
A Cidade dos Piratas
Self (archive footage)
A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
Brichos: A Floresta é Nossa
Al corcova
Нападение на центральный банк
Moacir
"Барон" хочет провернуть грандиозный грабеж- украcть огромное количество денег и без какого-либо насилия....
Daquele Instante em Diante
Self (archive footage)
This film documents in depth the life and artistic trajectory of the musician and poet Itamar Assumpção. He was one of the pillars of a moment of Brazilian popular music that was conventionally called "Vanguarda Paulista". Starting from extensive research which resulted in more than 250h of images and a dive into the personal universe of this incredible artist, Itamar comes up with a poetic, intuitive plot where facts and testimonies speak louder than preconceived ideas.
Курить запрещено
Pepe
Бейби – не просто заядлая, но страстная курильщица; Пикассо мог бы нарисовать с нее никотиновый аналог «Любительницы абсента». Она одинока, однако появление на этаже нового, весьма колоритного соседа-ровесника, становится поводом для обоснованных любовных воздыханий. Впрочем, это – центральная, но единственная линия бразильской кинопанорамы, жанр которой формулируется так: «маленькие комедии большого дома».
The World's Most Violent Movie
JC
Raimundo, film producer, asks financial aid to his friend and producer J.C. to evaluate his own project. J.C. conditions his support to a change in Raimundo's style. Raimundo will have to make a movie aimed to the general audience and following the old producer's book: violence, sex, non-actors and slum. Raimundo does what he says, but an unexpected fact threatens the film's conclusion.
Solo
A middle-aged, wealthy man who lives in an upscale neighborhood in São Paulo, goes to put on his shoes and finds that his foot is no longer the same – it has changed for the worse. This gesture is the trigger for a reflection on life, the passage of time and the difficulty in understanding the present day.
Alphaville 2007 D.C.
In the midst of a disguised civil war, a cowboy and an executive settle the accounts of Brazilian social apartheid. Taking kidnapping as a starting point, the panorama of urban violence is outlined in a very good mood, in a kind of scintific fiction about the third world.
A Voz do Provocador - O Ouro Roubado
In a monologue, a man explains his thoughts on the exploitation of Brazil's native people's resources.
A Voz do Provocador: Internacionalização da Amazônia
In a monologue, a man expresses his views over the international selling of the Amazon rainforest.
A Voz do Provocador — Parte 1: Os Artísticos
In a monologue, a man expresses his distaste for the artistic community.
Concerto Campestre
Major Eleutério Fontes
In the 19th century, rich farmer with a passion for music dreams of having an orchestra. He hires a conductor, to help him organize the musicians. But the man falls in love with his daughter.
What Is It Worth?
Manoel Fernandes
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
Cartas da Mãe
Narrador
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
Diretor do Teatro Municipal
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil.
Path of Dreams
Padre Otero
A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Who Killed Pixote?
Lawyer
The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, he got involved with crime.
Olhos de Vampa
Dr. Arthur
A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is assigned to investigate the murder together with fetishist photographer Oscar. Without any lead, they decide to follow a sexy and popular night-club dancer on the streets of São Paulo, trying to identify possible suspects.
Карлота Жоакина, принцесса бразильская
Conde de Mata-Porcos
На скалистом Шотландском мысе молодой человек рассказывает маленькой Иоланде об экзотической стране Бразилии, о «подвигах» испанской принцессы Карлоты Жоакины, которая в десятилетнем возрасте отправляется в Португалию, чтобы выйти замуж за принца Дона Жоао. Мрачный двор и трусливый несимпатичный жених производят плохое впечатление на юную принцессу..
Oceano Atlantis
In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing provisions and some are sacrificing themselves to avoid starvation, a diver goes to the bottom of the sea and finds a submerged civilization there.
Perigo Negro
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
Oswaldianas
Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
Self
A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28.
Olímpicos
At a poker table, five players discuss the possibility of having, in the Olympic Games, instead of the bow and arrow, the game of poker as an official modality.
Sermões - A História de Antônio Vieira
Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.
Party
Velho
A harmonica player, a player pool and his old assistant are invited to animate a rich people's party but time passes and they are never invited to introduce themselves. While waiting in the lobby witness all sorts of absurdities as the party goes on and guests are becoming more uninhibited.
Lua Cheia