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Zezé Motta
Maria José Motta de Oliveira (born 27 June 1944), known as Zezé Motta, is a Brazilian actress and singer. She is considered one of the most important actresses in Brazil. Life and career Born in Campos dos Goytacazes, she moved with her family to Rio de Janeiro at the age of two. She attended the school of Tablado Theatre and began her acting career in 1966, starring in the play ''Roda-viva'', by Chico Buarque. Other plays she worked in include ''Arena Conta Zumbi'' (1969), ''Orfeu Negro'' (1972), and ''Godspell'' (1974) She began her singing career in 1971 in the nightclubs of São Paulo. Between 1975 and 1979, she released three LPs, and a further three albums in the 1980s. In 1976 she starred in the film ''Xica da Silva''. Over the decades she has acted in some of the most popular television soap operas and series.Alvaro NederArtist biography AllMusic. Discography # ''Gerson Conrad & Zezé Motta'' (1974) LP/CD # ''Zezé Motta (Prazer, Zezé)'' (1978) LP/CD # ''Negritude'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campos Dos Goytacazes
Campos dos Goytacazes () is a municipality located in the northern region of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, with a population of 471,737 inhabitants. Location Campos dos Goytacazes has an area of 4,032 km2 (1,557 sq mi), which makes it the largest municipality in the state by area, and its elevation is 14 m. Its name comes from the geographical characteristic of the region, very flat with fields (''campos'' in Portuguese) and from the Goytacazes Indians, which inhabited the region. Campos, as the city is usually known, is a macro region of the Northern Fluminense, and is a micro region of Campos dos Goytacazes. The city has a tropical climate. The municipality contains part of the Desengano State Park, created in 1970. The city's distance to Rio de Janeiro city, which is the capital of the state, is . BR-101 is the access highway of the city of Campos. Regular air services are operated from its airport Bartolomeu Lysandro. It is the easternmost municipality in Rio de Jane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Você Decide
''Você Decide'' (''You Decide'' / ''It's Your Call'') was an interactive television program broadcast on the Brazilian TV network Rede Globo from 1992 to 2000. During each episode special cases were presented, and viewers would decide the ending through phone votes. Broadcast history ''Você Decide'' is the second longest-running series of Rede Globo, with nine seasons and 323 episodes. On March 11, 1999, the episode ''Mulher 2000'' had its finale shown only in the North and Northeast regions (along with portions of the Southeast and the Center-West regions) due to a blackout in Brazil and Paraguay in 1999 that greatly affected much of the country at the time of the show. In its final years, the program aired on Thursday nights shortly after ''Linha Direta''. The last episode aired on August 17, 2000. The following week, the program was replaced with the miniseries ''Aquarela do Brasil'' (Watercolors of Brazil). Brazilian soap opera stars participated in the episodes, with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tieta Of Agreste
''Tieta of Agreste'' ( pt, Tieta do Agreste) is a 1996 Brazilian comedy film directed by Carlos Diegues. It is based on the novel ''Tieta'' by Jorge Amado. The film was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Sônia Braga as Antonieta "Tieta" Esteves Cantarelli * Marília Pêra as Perpétua Esteves Batista **Anna Cotrim as young Perpétua * Chico Anysio as Zé Esteves, the Tieta's father * Cláudia Abreu as Leonora Cantarelli * Zezé Motta as Carmosina "Carmô" * Jece Valadão as Commandant Dario * Harildo Deda as coronel Artur da Tapitanga * André Valli as Barbozinha * Heitor Martinez as Ricardo "Cardo" Esteves Batista * Noélia Marcondes as Tonha * Patrícia França as Imaculada and young Tieta * Daniel Filho as Mirko Stephano * Virginia Rodrigues as singer * Jorge Amado as narrator Soundtrack See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orfeu
''Orfeu'' is a 1999 Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Diegues, based on the play '' Orfeu da Conceição'' by Vinicius de Moraes. It retells the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of Rio de Janeiro during Carnival. Toni Garrido stars as Orfeu, Patrícia França as Eurídice and Murilo Benício as Lucinho. Mostly shot in scenographic ''favela'' in Jacarepaguá, Rio de Janeiro, it included scenes from the 1998 Carnival celebration in which Garrido paraded with the samba school Viradouro. Cast *Toni Garrido as Orpheus *Patrícia França as Eurydice *Murilo Benício as Lucinho *Zezé Motta as Conceição *Milton Gonçalves as Inácio *Isabel Fillardis as Mira *Maria Ceiça as Carmen *Stepan Nercessian as Pacheco *Maurício Gonçalves as Pecê Reception It won the 1st Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil for Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Score. It was also the Brazilian submission to the 2001 Academy Award, but it did not enter the compet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xuxa E Os Duendes 2 - No Caminho Das Fadas
''Xuxa e os Duendes 2: No Caminho das Fadas'' () is a 2002 Brazilian fantasy adventure children's film directed by Paulo Sérgio de Almeida, Rogério Gomes and Márcio Vito and written by Vivian Perl and Wagner de Assis. It is the sequel to '' Xuxa e os Duendes'' (2001). Xuxa Meneghel, Ana Maria Braga, Debby Lagranha, Emiliano Queiroz, Tadeu Mello and Guilherme Karan reprise their respective roles from the first film, joined by Luciano Szafir, Betty Lago, Vera Fischer, Deborah Secco, Thiago Fragoso. In this sequel, Kira (Xuxa), the elf of light, is in charge of saving her friends and mankind from a curse that would petrify the hearts of lovers and end love on the face of the Earth. The film was released in theatres on December 13, 2002. The film repeated the success of the previous and was watched by approximately 2,301,152 viewers, according to Ancine, and earned more than 11,486,623 Brazilian reals, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 2003 in Brazil. The accompanying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sehnsucht (2006 Film)
''Longing'' (german: Sehnsucht) is a 2006 German drama film directed by Valeska Grisebach. It tells a tale of ''Liebestod'', of doomed love and tragic death, but set in the humdrum present among ordinary and sometimes inarticulate working people in the little country town of Zühlen in Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 sq .... Plot Markus is a self-contained young locksmith and volunteer firefighter in the rural town where he lives happily with his wife Ella, who works as a domestic, but without children. One day he is first on the scene at a road accident, the first time he has had to deal with both a serious injury and a corpse. Worse, he learns that it was not an accident but a suicide attempt by a man desperately unhappy in love. Drinking too much while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolina (2003 Film)
''Carolina'' is a 2003 American-German romantic comedy, romantic comedy film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Mika Boorem, Randy Quaid, and Jennifer Coolidge. Lisa Sheridan has a cameo role in the film, and Barbara Eden has the uncredited part of Daphne. It is set in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, California. Shot in 2003, the film failed to find a distributor and was released direct-to-video in 2004. Miramax Films was the domestic distributor, but failed to release it in theaters. When Harvey Weinstein screened the film he told the producers, "You have a hit movie on your hands. We're going to blast this on MTV all over Super Bowl Weekend." The producers never heard about it again until 2004 when it was suddenly released direct-to-DVD. The film began principal photography in July 2001. Kathy Bates was cast in the role of Grandma Millicent Mirabeau, but dropped out after make-up and hair tests due to the shut down of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xuxa E O Tesouro Da Cidade Perdida
''Xuxa e o Tesouro da Cidade Perdida'' () is a 2004 Brazilian fantasy adventure children's film, written by Flávio de Souza, directed by Moacyr Góes, produced by Diler Trindade and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and Globo Filmes. Starring Xuxa Meneghel, Marcos Pasquim, Juliana Knust, Paulo Vilhena, Sérgio Hondjakoff, Natália Lage, Zezé Motta, Bruna Marquezine, Milton Gonçalves and Sérgio Malheiros. Xuxa lives a biologist in a town near the Amazon Rainforest. Alongside the brothers Riacho and Manhã, she seeks the lost city of Igdrasil, which according to legend was founded by descendants of Vikings who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and ventured down the Amazon River. Director Góes developed the script based on influences from films such as Indiana Jones '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'', other influences include Allan Quatermain's '' Lost City of Gold''s and William Shakespeare's ''Midsummer Night's Dream''. In addition to containing references of Inca and Scandinavian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Ilha Dos Escravos
''A Ilha dos Escravos'' (''The Island of Slaves'' or ''The Isle of Slaves'') is a 2008 Cape Verdean, Brazilian, Portuguese and Spanish drama film directed by Portuguese director Francisco Manso. It was based on a novel named "O Escravo" ("The Slave") written in 1856 by José Evaristo de Almeida, a Portuguese who was exiled in Cape Verde. Plot The film takes place during the 19th century during a revolt by Miguelists who were exiled in Cape Verde, and centres on a love triangle between Maria ( Vanessa Giácomo), João ( Ângelo Torres) and Albano Lopes ( Diogo Infante). Maria is the daughter of a farmer, João is a slave and Albano Lopes is a Miguelist official. A troop survey of the city of Praia, instigated by officers banished in the archipelago, as a result of a defeat of the partisans by Infante D. Miguel during the Portuguese Civil War, and a historic part of the film. The rebels, contrary to their own anti-liberal convictions, try to enlist the slaved population into their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xuxa Em O Mistério De Feiurinha
Xuxa em O Mistério de Feiurinha ( en, Xuxa in the Feiurinha' Mystery, italic=yes) is a children's film directed by Tizuka Yamasaki and starring Xuxa Meneghel. It is adapted from the book ''O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha'', written by Pedro Bandeira. Famous princesses of books and classic films such as Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Belle are convened when Little Red Riding Hood announced the disappearance of princess Feiurinha. To save the kingdom in which they live, they decide to embark on a journey to find Feiurinha. The cast also features the participation of Luciano Szafir, Sasha Meneghel, Fafy Siqueira, Angelica, Luciano Huck, Hebe Camargo, Daniele Valente and Bernardo Mesquita. The theme song is '' Do You Believe in Magic'', performed by Lulu Santos and Xuxa. Plot In the enchanted world, princes and princesses live in peace until one of the characters disappears mysteriously. Feiurinha (Sasha Meneghel), a little-known princess disappears an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonzaga — De Pai Pra Filho
Gonzaga — de Pai pra Filho is a 2012 Brazilian drama film directed by Breno Silveira, written by Patricia Andrade, and starring Chambinho do Acordeon and Júlio Andrade. Inspired by the life of musicians Luiz Gonzaga and Gonzaguinha, father and son respectively, the feature was released in Brazil on October 26, 2012, and was broadcast by Rede Globo in a microseries format between January 17 and 20, 2013, in 4 chapters. Cast * Chambinho do Acordeon as Luiz Gonzaga ** Land Vieira as Luiz Gonzaga (young) ** Adelio Lima as Luiz Gonzaga (old) * Júlio Andrade as Gonzaguinha ** Giancarlo Di Tommaso as Gonzaguinha (young) * Nanda Costa as Odaleia * Magdale Alves as Helena * Roberta Gualda as Helena (young) * Anna Aguiar as Nazinha Deolindo * Cecília Dassi as Nazinha Deolindo (young) * Domingos Montagner as Coronel Raimundo Deolindo * Sílvia Buarque as Dina Pinheiro * Luciano Quirino as Xavier Pinheiro * Claudio Jaborandy as Januário Gonzaga *Cyria Coentro as Santana Gonzaga *Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beto Rockfeller
''Beto Rockfeller'' is a Brazilian telenovela produced by TV Tupi and aired from November 4, 1968, to November 30, 1969. It was created by Cassiano Gabus Mendes, written by Bráulio Pedroso and directed by Lima Duarte and Walter Avancini. Plot Beto Rockfeller (played by Luiz Gustavo) is a charming, lower middle class shoes salesman who cons people into believing he is a millionaire by mixing himself with members of the high society of São Paulo. Cast * Luis Gustavo - Beto Rockfeller * Bete Mendes - Renata *Débora Duarte - Lu * Ana Rosa - Cida *Irene Ravache - Neide * Walter Forster - Otávio * Plínio Marcos - Vitório * Maria Della Costa - Maitê * Marília Pêra - Manuela * Rodrigo Santiago - Carlucho * Yara Lins - Clô *Joffre Soares - Pedro * Eleonor Bruno - Rosa * Walderez de Barros - Mercedes * Ruy Rezende - Saldanha *Wladimir Nikolaief - Lavito *Heleno Prestes - Tavinho * Pepita Rodrigues - Bárbara *Marilda Pedroso - Mila * Renato Corte Real - Bertolo * Etty Fraser - ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
