Eduardo Coutinho
Date of Birth: 11 May 1933
Country: Brazil
Biography: Eduardo Coutinho is a brazilian filmmaker, considered one of the most important documentarians nowadays. His work is best known by his sensibility on dealing with social questions. His most famous and critically acclaimed movie is Cabra Marcado Para Morrer (Twenty Years Later, 1985).
Total Credits at Criticker: 5 (Actor), 18 (Director), 12 (Writer)
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Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered. (imdb)
For one week, Eduardo Coutinho and his team talked to 27 residents in an enormous building in Copacabana... (imdb)
In the documentary Santo Forte, the inhabitants of the poor quarters of Rio de Janeiro speak openly about their beliefs and their relationship to their faith. (kviff.com)
The daily routine of poor people of Itaoca, São Gonçalo, state of Rio de Janeiro, who make a living out of revolving garbage. (imdb)
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation. (imdb)
A film starting from naught. With no prior research, no characters, no sites, nor specific themes, a film team arrive to the hinterland of Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil in search of people with stories to tell. In the village of São João do Rio do Peixe they come to Sítio Araçás, a rural community of 86 families, mostly relatives. (imdb)
Worker from the Brazilian ABC are interviewed twenty-three years after their first strike leaded by their leader Luis Inácio "Lula" da Silva. In 1979, Brazil lived a dictatorship, and the metallurgic were the first class of workers that, under the command of the president of their union, Lula, to organize a strike in the military regime and face the police and the dominant class (entrepreneurs)... (imdb)
The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of police violence. (imdb)
José Guerra, a humble citizen of the country's Reserve 17, naively cashes a check of one hundred thousand strikmas which he received from a mysterious Hindi. It's the equivalent of ten trillion dollars. The authorities require that money be deposited in the state and order the confinement of Jose Guerra in the interest of national security
Documentary on poor people living in two slums in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve. (imdb)
A band of outlaws led by Faustao intervene in a fight between members of families and Araújo Pereira. Henry, son of Colonel Payne, is wounded in an ambush. Faustão rescues him and demands that his father paid a ransom in exchange for the life of the child.
Coutinho accompanies the process of testing the text "The Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov, with mounting theater group led by the Shed.
Coutinho's documentary about the life experiences of ordinary people with popular songs.
An essay on the imagination, cultural identity and prejudice against black people, focusing on the work of Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos, salt mine worker and semi-illiterate black artist who has built, in São Pedro d'Aldeia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Casa da Flor (House of the Flower), made of objects found in the trash. (imdb)
Collage of images obtained by a zapping through several channels in brazilian TV.
The late director Eduardo Coutinho sits down and talks with young Brazilian students in his last documentary. (imdb)
Seis Dias de Ouricuri (1976) - Short Film
Early documentary by Eduardo Coutinho dealing with the water shortage in the city of Ouricuri in the seventies.