Jorge Bodanzky

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Jorge Bodanzky

Born December 22, 1942 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (age 83)

Jorge Bodanzky (São Paulo, December 22, 1942) is a Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter and photographer.

Known For

Copacabana Fools MeCopacabana Fools Me · 1969
Copacabana Fools Me
★ 7.21969
MovieComedyDrama
Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.
Once Upon a Time There Was IracemaOnce Upon a Time There Was Iracema · 2005
Once Upon a Time There Was Iracema
2005
MovieDocumentary
A making-of directed by Bodanzky himself, the documentary discusses the language of the film Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica 30 years after it was made, gathering interviews with the authors, actors, critics and the filmmakers themselves.
Terceiro MilênioTerceiro Milênio · 1981
Terceiro Milênio
★ 6.61981
MovieAdventureDocumentary
August, 1980. Evandro Carreira, a Brazilian senator leaves his party's office in Manaus to visit his constituents in the state of Amazonas. Interviews with farmhands, loggers, explorer Paulo Lucena, Brazilian and Peruvian Indians and a representative of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) were recorded from the city of Benjamin Constant to the village of Cavalo Cocho. A visit to the indigenous village of the Ticunas and the lands of the Maiuruna people culminate with an interview and the actions of José Francisco da Cruz, a member of the Order of the Holy Cross. Throughout the trip, the economic potential of the Amazon and its problems (corruption in the indigenous policies and the pollution produced by factories) are shown.
ÔríÔrí · 1989
Ôrí
★ 8.61989
MovieDocumentary
A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.
Babenco: Tell Me When I DieBabenco: Tell Me When I Die · 2020
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
★ 7.12020
MovieDocumentary
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.
PandemoniumPandemonium · 2010
Pandemonium
★ 5.02010
MovieDocumentary
In the middle of the River, Between TreesIn the middle of the River, Between Trees · 2009
In the middle of the River, Between Trees
2009
MovieDocumentary
Filmmaker Jorge Bodanzky gives some classes to local communties at Alto Solimões in the Amazom and collect the results.
Os MuckerOs Mucker · 1979
Os Mucker
★ 7.01979
MovieDramaHistory
In 1873 in Rio Grande do Sul, a group of peasants come together to form a community of brothers, arousing the enmity of the rest of the population. They are immigrants from the German region and develop a communitary social model, having the Bible as a code of morals, faith and conduct. The group's economic independence ends up irritating the locals to the point of provoking successive aggressions that culminate in a bloody massacre.

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Terceiro MilênioTerceiro Milênio · 1981
Terceiro Milênio
★ 6.61981
MovieAdventureDocumentary
August, 1980. Evandro Carreira, a Brazilian senator leaves his party's office in Manaus to visit his constituents in the state of Amazonas. Interviews with farmhands, loggers, explorer Paulo Lucena, Brazilian and Peruvian Indians and a representative of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) were recorded from the city of Benjamin Constant to the village of Cavalo Cocho. A visit to the indigenous village of the Ticunas and the lands of the Maiuruna people culminate with an interview and the actions of José Francisco da Cruz, a member of the Order of the Holy Cross. Throughout the trip, the economic potential of the Amazon and its problems (corruption in the indigenous policies and the pollution produced by factories) are shown.

Writer