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Pixote
''Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco'' (, lit. "Pixote (small child): The Law of the Weakest") is a 1980 Brazilian crime drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. The screenplay was written by Babenco and Jorge Durán, based on the book ''A Infância dos Mortos'' (''The Childhood of the Dead Ones'') by José Louzeiro. It is a documentary-like account of Brazil's delinquent youth and how they are used by corrupt police and other crime organizations to commit crimes. The film features Fernando Ramos da Silva (who was killed at the age of 19 by Brazilian police in São Paulo) as Pixote and Marília Pêra as Sueli. The plot revolves around Pixote, a young boy who is used as a child criminal in muggings and drug transport. Plot After a police round up of street children, Pixote (Fernando Ramos da Silva) a 10-year-old boy is sent to a juvenile reformatory (FEBEM). The prison is a hellish school where Pixote uses glue sniffing as a means of emotional escape from the constant threats of abus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Ramos Da Silva
Fernando Ramos da Silva (29 November 1967 – 25 August 1987) was a Brazilian actor who became renowned for his role as "Pixote," the 10-year-old title character in Hector Babenco's 1981 film '' Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco'', a documentary-style account of the street children of Brazil. Da Silva became a controversial figure after the film's release and found it hard to separate himself from his depiction as the street assailant Pixote. On 25 August 1987, da Silva was fatally wounded in an alleged shootout with police. Police reports claim that da Silva was resisting arrest, but there are conflicting reports from eyewitnesses who claim da Silva was unarmed. Early life Born on 29 November 1967 in São Paulo, da Silva was the sixth of ten children. When he was eight years old his father, João Alves da Silva, died, leaving him with his widowed mother, Josefa Carvalho da Silva, and the rest of his siblings. They lived in a poor city called Diadema on the outskirts of São Paulo. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marília Pêra
Marília Soares Pêra (22 January 1943 – 5 December 2015) was a Brazilian actress, singer, and stage director. Hailed as "one of the decade's 980sten best actresses" by Pauline Kael, Pêra won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1982 for her role in Hector Babenco's acclaimed ''Pixote'', and received Best Actress awards at the Gramado Film Festival (Triple Award Winner) and at the Cartagena Film Festival for Carlos Diegues' '' Better Days Ahead''. Other films include ''Bar Esperança'', ''Angels of the Night'', and Diegues' ''Tieta do Agreste''. Biography Marília Soares Pêra (Marilia Pera da Graça Mello, after she married), was born on January 22, 1943, in the neighborhood of Rio Comprido, in Rio de Janeiro. From 14 to 21 years, works as a dancer in musicals and revue as ''Minha Querida Lady'' (1962), starring Bibi Ferreira, and ''O Teu Cabelo Não Nega'' (1963) biography of Lamartine Babo, as Carmen Miranda - role that would repeat a few times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héctor Babenco
Héctor Eduardo Babenco (February 7, 1946July 13, 2016) was an Argentine-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor who worked in several countries including Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. He was one of the first Brazilian filmmakers to gain international critical acclaim, through his films which often dealt with social outcasts on the fringes of society. His best-known works include ''Pixote'' (1980), '' Kiss of the Spider Woman'' (1985), '' Ironweed'' (1987), ''At Play in the Fields of the Lord'' (1990) and '' Carandiru'' (2003). Babenco's films brought him several accolades. He was nominated three times for the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for ''Kiss of the Spider Woman.'' He won the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro twice, and the Prêmio ACIE de Cinema once. Early life Babenco was born in Buenos Aires and raised in Mar del Plata. His mother, Janka Haberberg, was a Polish Jewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatriz Segall
Beatriz de Toledo Segall (25 July 1926 – 5 September 2018) was a Brazilian actress. One of her most notable works is the role of Odete Roitman on the telenovela '' Vale Tudo'' (1988). Partial filmography * '' 24 Horas de Sonho'' (1941) as Glória Seydoux Gayet * ''Pássaros de Asas Cortadas'' (1942) * '' Fantasma Por Acaso'' (1946) as Libânia * ''A Beleza do Diabo'' (1950) * ''Cleo e Daniel'' (1970) as Cléo's Mother * ''À Flor da Pele'' (1977) as Isaura * ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Louzeiro
José de Jesus Louzeiro (September 19, 1932 – December 29, 2017) was a Brazilian novelist, screenwriter and reporter. Louzeiro was born in São Luís. He started working in 1948 as an intern at the newspaper ''O Imparcial''. In 1953, when he was 21 years old, he moved to Rio de Janeiro where he worked on the magazine ''A Revista da Semana'' and ''O Jornal.'' Louzeiro also wrote for the newspapers Diário Carioca'', '' Última Hora'', ''Correio da Manhã'', ''Folha and Diário do Grande ABC, as well for the magazine Manchete. '''' Louzeiro first foray in literature was in 1958 with the short story ''Depois da Luta''. His experience as a police reporter marked his literary production; Louzeiro's writing about real-life crime stories in a novelized way was compared to Truman Capote's nonfiction novels. Another books by Louzeiro are ''Lúcio Flávio, o passageiro da agonia'' (1975), ''Araceli, meu amor'' (1976) and ''Infância dos mortos'' (1977). He also wrote children's books. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Maravilha
Elke Maravilha ( Grünupp;Biografia desconstrói mitos que Elke Maravilha criou ao longo da vida Folha de S. Paulo, Leonardo Sanchez (in Portuguese). 22 February 1945 – 16 August 2016) was a German-Brazilian actress, model and television personality. She lived in Brazil from her early childhood until her death. Biography Maravilha was born in Leutkirch. At the age of six, her family emigrated to Brazil and first settled at a farm in |
Jardel Filho
Jardel Filho (24 July 1928 – 19 February 1983) was a Brazilian film actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1949 and 1982. Filmography External links * 1928 births 1983 deaths Brazilian male film actors Brazilian people of Italian descent 20th-century Brazilian male actors {{Brazil-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubens De Falco
Rubens de Falco da Costa (October 19, 1931 – August 22, 2008) was a Brazilian actor best known for his work in telenovelas, specifically his portrayal as a slave owner in the 1976 telenovela, '' Escrava Isaura'' (''The Slave Isaura'') and the 1986 telenovela ''Sinhá Moça'' (''Little Missy''). Career De Falco was born in São Paulo, Brazil on October 19, 1931. He began his acting career in the local theater. In 1955, he joined the group "''Os Jograis''", of São Paulo, and performed beside such actors as Ruy Afonso, Italo Rossi and Felipe Wagner. He made his cinema debut in 1952 in the film '' Apassionata'', for the Cinematographic Company Vera Cruz. In television, he had prominence parts in telenovelas such as '' O Rei dos Ciganos'' (1967), '' A Rainha Louca'' (1967), ''O Passo dos Ventos'' (1968), ''Gabriela'' (1975), '' O Grito'' (1975), '' Isaura, The Slave Girl'' (1976), '' Dona Xepa'' (1977), ''A Sucessora'' (1978) and ''Sinhá Moça'' (1986). Perhaps his best-know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Style
A mockumentary (a blend of ''mock'' and ''documentary''), fake documentary or docu-comedy is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictional setting, or to parody the documentary form itself. While mockumentaries are usually comedic, pseudo-documentaries are their dramatic equivalents. However, pseudo-documentary should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events. Also, docudrama is different from docufiction, a genre in which documentaries are contaminated with fictional elements. Mockumentaries are often presented as historical documentaries, with B roll and talking heads discussing past events, or as ''cinéma vérité'' pieces following people as they go through various events. Examples emerged during the 1950s when archival film foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Tornado
Antonio Viana Gomes, better known as Tony Tornado or Toni Tornado ( Mirante do Paranapanema, May 26, 1930), is a Brazilian actor and singer. In 1970 he won the Brazilian stage of the V International Song Festival with the soul song "BR-3". Biography Son of a Guyanese father and a Brazilian mother, at 11 years old Tony ran away from home and ended up in Rio de Janeiro where he became a street kid and made a living selling peanuts and shining shoes. At 18 he served in the Deodoro School of Parachuting along with the future TV presenter and entrepreneur Silvio Santos. In 1957, he fought in the Suez Canal. Tony began his artistic career in the 60s with the stage name Tony Checker, lip-synching and dancing on "Hoje é dia de Rock" show of Jair Taumaturgo. That time Tony imitated singers Chubby Checker and Little Richard. Even in the 60s, he traveled to the United States where he lived for five years in New York. In New York, Tony served as drug dealer and pimp, to deceive th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
