Antonio Pitanga

Antonio Pitanga

Total Credits at Criticker: 39 (Actor), 1 (Director), 1 (Writer)

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    Payer of Promises
    Ze is a very poor men from the Brazilian backlands. His most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Ze makes a promise to God (imdb)
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    A Mulher de Todos
    Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power. (imdb)
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    Villa-Lobos - Uma Vida de Paixão
    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... (imdb)
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    Mauá: O Imperador e O Rei
    A sprawling historical epic tracing the career of Irineu Evangellista de Souza, the 19th-century tycoon who amassed and lost a colossal fortune. (dvdbrazil.com)
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    Di Cavalcanti
    Di Cavalcanti (1977) - Short Film
    When brazilian art master Di Cavalcanti died, Glauber Rocha went to his funeral... with a camera. The short movie shows Cavalcanti`s corpse in the coffin, the funeral, and his family yelling at Rocha to get out of there with that camera, while in the background we hear Jorge Ben singing "Umbabarauma, homem gol", a famous samba-funk song about a famous brazilian soccer player. (IMDB Comments)
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    The Age of the Earth
    A personal vision of contemporary Brazil and its evolution, with a number of archetypes which recall some of Glauber Rocha's previous films: the Indian, the Colonizer, the Nordeste man, the Worker, the Amazon, the Bourgeois and a black Christ bringing new revolutionary hope for the Third World.
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    Quilombo
    Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the aged seer, Acotirene. She anoints one who becomes Ganga Zumba, a legendary king... (imdb)
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    Menino de Engenho
    In colonial Brazil, boy is sent to live with some parents in a sugarcane plantation, after losing his mother. His adaptation will be difficult and painful. (imdb)
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    Barrela: School of Crimes
    Good-looking middle-class boy, arrested because of a minor offense (a fight in a bar), is put in a fetid small cell with six dangerous and poor criminals, and ends up being brutally raped. (imdb)
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    Os Fuzis
    In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit. (imdb)
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    Bahia de Todos os Santos
    In Salvador (Brazil), during the dictatorship of Vargas, Tonio fights against social and religious inequalities. His lover wants to keep him away from his colleagues, but he gets into a conflict between strikers and the police.
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    A Grande Feira
    Made in the famous "Água de Meninos" market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices, from the world of high finance up to the sordid environment of exotic cabarets. (imdb)
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    Câncer
    This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society. (imdb)
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    Barravento
    A denunciation of exploitation and the superstition that helps maintain it; an exploration of 'macumba', the mixture of Christianity and African tribal religion whose superstition aids the successful subjugation and exploitation of the fishermen in the Bahia province. (timeout.com/film/newyork/reviews/67393/Barravento.html)
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    Ganga Zumba
    The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves. (imdb)
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    A Grande Cidade
    The theme deplores the conditions of the slum quarters of Rio (and ghettos everywhere) and finds a young girl from the provinces who comes to Rio de Janiero in search of her fiance and finds he is a feared and hunted criminal. The scenes between the idealistic-but-trapped young lovers is depicted in soft images of tenderness and sensitivity that leads to a climax of shocking violence in the Rio slums. (imdb)
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    Juliana do Amor Perdido
    A beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with an outsider, a train machinist. But her father, a violent religious fanatic interferes. (imdb)
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    Compasso de Espera
    Compasso de Espera focuses on a black poet and advertising agent named Jorge. He publishes books of poetry -- Compasso de Espera is the title of one of his collections -- with the help of his sponsor, a white millionaire. Jorge feels sorry for her, but also resents his financial dependence on her.
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    Tocaia no Asfalto
    The psychology and life of Brazilian hitmen, common in the Northeast part of the country. In this particular case, the story revolves around a young and idealistic politician from Salvador, whom the enemies are eager to eliminate. (imdb)
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    Cordão De Ouro
    In Eldorado, where the Company Progress mixes the most modern and primitive forms of work, George, a slave in a mine in selenium, can escape taking advantage of his expertise in the game of capoeira.
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    Quando o Carnaval Chegar
    Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds it isn't an easy task.
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    Como Ser Solteiro
    A shy journalist asks a womanizer friend for advice on how to seduce women. The lessons work so well that the "teacher" decides to write a book on the subject: The Single Man Manual.
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    O Rei do Rio
    Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals. (imdb)
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    Joanna Francesa
    Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at Sao Paulo, and with him the frivolity of tea-parties and comfort. Her wild inner-soul will develop into the wild forest surroundings of a landlord's farmhouse..... (imdb)
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    Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos seus Lindos Lábios
    A love triangle through the interior of the Amazon involving the photographer Cauby , the beautiful and unstable Lavinia and her husband, Pastor Ernani, who believes it possible to fix the world's contradictions
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    Chico Rei
    Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the properties of his former owner, and his companions' freedom, becoming Chico Rei, the first black man to own lands in Brazil. Written by
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    Ladrões de Cinema
    The story revolves around a group of squatters who assaults a film crew during the carnival, and with the equipment stolen, decides to make a film on slum.
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    Êsse Mundo é Meu
    The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker. (imdb)
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    Vendo ou Alugo
    Great-grandmother, grandmother, mother and daughter share a luxurious home that can no longer keep, and the proximity of the slum, also unable to sell or rent. Now the UPP occupied the favela, and potential buyers come to see the house. During the visit begins a shootout, leaving everyone trapped. Faced with the threat of life, little sins are revealed and take shape tragicomic situations involving visitors and residents of the slums and the asphalt.
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    Vozes do Medo
    Face to face to reality. 12 itens, 12 directors, where there a merge is made between cinema-verite and fiction, cartoons and fantastic realism, and an infinity of other tendencies and manifestations of the free speech. A survey about Brazil during the 70s. An experiment about freedom.
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    Crueldade Mortal
    Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his life, but falls in love with a woman who despises him, which drives him mad.
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    Dedé Mamata
    As André, during the childhood and teenage years living with his anarchist and communist grandparents, he managed to survive the hard years of the military regime, finding comfort in the company of a drug addict street boy and one girl that comes to live with his family. With the loss of his grandparents, he becomes Dedé Mamata and a new reality full of perspectives comes on his way. (imdb)
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    Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
    Apolônio Brasil was a cult pianist who used to play in nightclubs in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950s and 1960s. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women, idolized by his audience and friends, besides being extremely high-spirited and charming. For all that, his brain is removed after his death and becomes the center of a dispute among an American scientist, Dr. Bóris, who wants to study it, his friends and his son Paluca. (imdb)
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    La mansión de Araucaima
    A young model runs away from the set of a commercial spot she's filming, and enter the mansion of Araucaima, where its dwellers indulge in strange rites.
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    Correndo Atrás
    Paulo Gale is a black Brazilian man, a typical "day-by-day survivor", always doing his best to bring some happiness in his life, and by happiness he means money. When finding himself a dead end, he discovers the opportunity to become a football manager by leading some boy from the neighborhood to becoming the new Neymar of international soccer. Going through the suburbs of Rio, he finds Glanderson, a young boy with an enormous talent for soccer given the absence of two toes in his right foot. Wi
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    Memory House
    Cristovam, a native from the brazilian hinterland, works in a milk factory in a former Austrian colony in Brazil. He feels lonely, ostracized by cultural and ethnic differences. One day, he discovers an abandoned house filled with objects that remind him of his origins. He slowly settles in this house. Curiously, more objects start to appear without explanation, as if the place was aliveç
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    Bandeira de retalhos
    A love triangle is formed by two men and a woman in the Rio de Janeiro of the late 1970's. Paralel to the relationship situation, the poor community where they live go through a significant change when local authorities decide to remove the population with the intention of avoiding a possible tragedy.
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    Wedding Games
    On the days previous to their wedding, Eva and Alex suffer different misfortunes that endanger their ceremony.
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    Na Boca do Mundo
    A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafona. His biggest ambition is to stash enough money to leave to a big city with his fiancee, a mix-raced girl who sells fresh crabs to locals and wishes for a better life. When a rich white woman from the high society arrives to spend a few days away after ending a failed marriage, Antônio soon bonds with her and begins to change his plans. (letterboxd)
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