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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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The late director Eduardo Coutinho sits down and talks with young Brazilian students in his last documentary. (imdb)
Collage of images obtained by a zapping through several channels in brazilian TV.
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)
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)
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)
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.
A German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s. But soon they get involved, and she teaches him love lessons instead. (imdb)
In São Paulo, during the 1920s, a woman who is loved by a telegraphist and seduced by a slacker ends up in prostitution. (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.
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
Woman who is obsessed with death wants a first-class burial for herself, and even buys a luxury coffin beforehand. (imdb)
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