Fernando Peixoto

Acting

Fernando Peixoto

Born May 19, 1937 · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Died January 15, 2012 · aged 74

Fernando Amaral dos Guimarães Peixoto (Porto Alegre, May 19, 1937 - São Paulo, January 15, 2012) was a writer, translator, actor and theater director, linked to Teatro Oficina de São Paulo, until 1968. Author of several works linked to Brechtian conceptions, having been a member of the central committee of the Brazilian Communist Party.

Known For

They Don't Wear Black TieThey Don't Wear Black Tie · 1981
They Don't Wear Black Tie
★ 8.31981
MovieDrama
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
The Brazilwood ManThe Brazilwood Man · 1982
The Brazilwood Man
★ 5.01982
MovieComedyHistory
Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.
Bebel, Garota PropagandaBebel, Garota Propaganda · 1967
Bebel, Garota Propaganda
★ 7.01967
MovieDramaComedy
Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom.
O Último Dia de LampiãoO Último Dia de Lampião · 1975
O Último Dia de Lampião
★ 10.01975
MovieDocumentary
A docufiction film about the fall of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, widely known as Lampião – the mythical bandit leader from the Brazilian northeast who fought the local power and put his name in history.
The FallThe Fall · 1976
The Fall
★ 6.81976
MovieDrama
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
The Prophet of HungerThe Prophet of Hunger · 1970
The Prophet of Hunger
★ 6.81970
MovieDrama
The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.
CorrespondênciaCorrespondência · 1996
Correspondência
1996
MovieDramaComedy
Two-Edged KnifeTwo-Edged Knife · 1989
Two-Edged Knife
★ 6.01989
MovieCrime
Paulo is a rich lawyer who has a happy and comfortable family life, with his kid and very loyal to his wife. But when he finds out that the woman is cheating on him with his business partner and best friend, he decides to execute a perfect plan that involves murdering both and easily getting away with murder. However, Paulo's plans are about to be ruined due to some unpredictable factors involving powerful people, plenty of money, the kidnap of his son and a tenacious inspector following his steps.

Filmography

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The FallThe Fall · 1976
The Fall
★ 6.81976
MovieDrama
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.