Paulo César Saraceni

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Paulo César Saraceni

Born November 5, 1933 · Brazil

Died April 14, 2012 · aged 78

Paulo César Saraceni (5 November 1933 – 14 April 2012) was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed 14 films between 1960 and 2011. His 1999 film "Traveller" was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Mention.

Known For

TravellerTraveller · 1998
Traveller
★ 6.51998
MovieDrama
Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards, leaving a poetic feeling in the air, which is always deadly to the ones who stay. Mrs. Ana de Lara, the proud rich widow, and Missy, still a child, whose beauty and innocence are like the Tiê-Sangue, a red bird, are the travelers victims. There is also Master Juca do Vale, a criminal, whose passion turns him incredibly human, in this story of love, death, forgiveness and resurrection.
Ao Sul do Meu CorpoAo Sul do Meu Corpo · 1982
Ao Sul do Meu Corpo
★ 4.31982
MovieDramaRomance
São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro he won a scholarship to study in Paris. In Paris Polidoro receives a letter in which Alberto announces that he married Helena. Polidoro returns to Brazil in 1945, when there was a strong political agitation against the New State. Alberto invites Polidoro to spend a few days at his home in Campos do Jordão. After reaching the site he is told by Helena that Alberto was forced to travel urgently. She insists he should stay there until the return of her husband and, while waiting, she seduces him. Then, after several days of intense passion, she orders Polidoro to go away and never see her again.
Natal da PortelaNatal da Portela · 1988
Natal da Portela
★ 7.11988
MovieDramaMusic
Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.
Anchieta, José do BrasilAnchieta, José do Brasil · 1977
Anchieta, José do Brasil
★ 6.11977
MovieHistoryDrama
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
Love, Carnival and DreamsLove, Carnival and Dreams · 1972
Love, Carnival and Dreams
★ 4.71972
MovieComedy
On Carnival's eve, girl dreams of a man to stay with her during these four days. She meets a photographer, with whom she has an affair.
Bahia de Todos os SambasBahia de Todos os Sambas · 1996
Bahia de Todos os Sambas
★ 8.01996
MovieDocumentaryMusic
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of these great names in Bahia's music.
CapituCapitu · 1968
Capitu
★ 5.91968
MovieDramaRomance
Adaptation of Machado de Assis’s classic novel “Dom Casmurro”. Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not really his.
SermõesSermões · 1989
Sermões
★ 6.31989
MovieDramaHistory
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.

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