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Acting
Ruth Escobar
Born March 31, 1935 · Porto, Portugal
Died October 5, 2017 · aged 82
No biography available.
Known For
Primavera · 2022Primavera
★ 6.02022
MovieDrama
Moments before a father's death, all of his family memories are transferred to his son through a dream, from the first ancestor, an Englishman living at the end of the 18th century, to his Brazilian heirs, the protagonists of this story.
Romance · 1988Romance
★ 4.61988
Movie
After a man dies under mysterious circumstances, his girlfriend and his gay lover deal with his death in different ways.
Hitler in the Third World · 1968Hitler in the Third World
★ 8.31968
MovieComedy
Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.
The Jew · 1996The Jew
★ 5.71996
MovieDrama
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
Jouez Encore, Payez Encore · 1975Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
★ 7.51975
MovieDocumentary
A film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and then the conflicts that break out as they tour Iran and France with a performance of Calderon's autos sacramentales. A problem with a scenery prop sparks a crisis in the group and the film chronicles this disaster.
Esther Ferrer: Threads of Time · 2020Esther Ferrer: Threads of Time
2020
MovieDocumentary
The definitive documentary that reviews the enormous career of Esther Ferrer, one of the great Spanish creators in the performance genre. A "hybrid" between the documentary and the discipline of performance itself, between recording and creation, which uses elements and techniques typical of the cinematographic genre on which animation and self-created elements are superimposed.
The Wrung-Out Man · 1980The Wrung-Out Man
★ 7.21980
MovieDrama
Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.
Gregório de Mattos · 2003Gregório de Mattos
★ 7.02003
MovieDramaHistory
The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his transgressive poetry against the élite of the time.
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