''Samba'' is a 1965 Brazilian-Spanish

musical film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks ...

directed by

Rafael Gil Rafael Gil (22 May 1913 – 10 July 1986) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film ''La guerra de Dios'' (1953) won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and also won best film and best director at the San Sebastián ...

and starring

Sara Montiel María Antonia Abad Fernández MML (10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013), known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish actress and singer, who also held Mexican citizenship since 1951. She began her career in the 1940s an ...

Marc Michel Marc Michel (February 10, 1929 – 3 November 2016) was a French-Swiss actor. He appeared in more than fifty films. He is best known for his roles in three seminal French films of the 1960s: Jacques Becker's ''Le Trou'' (1960), and two films ...

and

Fosco Giachetti Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor. Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of '' Lo squadrone bianco'' (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fasci ...

.Morcillo p.244 The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Enrique Alarcón Enrique Alarcón Sánchez-Manjavacas (1917–1995) was a Spanish art director.Faulkner p.106 He worked on over two hundred films. Selected filmography * ''Eloisa Is Under an Almond Tree'' (1943) * ''The Phantom and Dona Juanita'' (1945) * ''Lad ...

and Pierino Massenzi.

Cast

as Belén / Laura Monteiro *

as Paulo *

as João Fernandes de Oliveira * Carlos Alberto as Assis *

José Prada José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

as Oliveira's lawyer * Zeni Pereira as Trinidad *

Eliezer Gomes Eliezer Gomes (1920–1979) was a Brazilian actor. Born in Santo Antônio de Pádua or Conceição de Macabu, he debuted on Roberto Farias' 1962 film '' O Assalto ao Trem Pagador''. In 1975, he won the Gramado Film Festival Best Actor Award for ...

as Negro gangster *

Antonio Pitanga Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male ...

as Paulo's friend * Álvaro Aguiar as White gangster * José Policena * Antonia Marzullo as Belén's grandmother *

Grande Otelo Grande Otelo (October 18, 1915 – November 26, 1993) was the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata. Otelo was born in Uberlândia, and was orphaned as a child. He kept running away from ...

as Freitas *

Arlindo Rodrigues Arlindo Rodrigues (1931 - 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, ...

as Himself / Salgueiro art director * Leila Adiles * Ernesto Alves * Nestor de Montemar * Moacyr Deriquém as Copacabana seducer * Wilson Grey as Man in samba school committee * Milton Luiz * Ciro Monteiro as President of Salgueiro Samba School *

Maria Regina Maria Regina may refer to: * Maria Regina (or Maria R.), a latinate form of address for queens named Maria; see Queen Mary (disambiguation) * an art historians' synonym for the iconic image of Mary enthroned, with or without the child Jesus; see ' ...

Leonardo Villar Leonardo Villar (25 July 1923 – 3 July 2020) was a Brazilian actor. He became internationally known for his performance as Zé do Burro in Anselmo Duarte's ''O Pagador de Promessas'', the only Brazilian film so far awarded a Palme d'Or at the ...

References

Bibliography

* Aurora G. Morcillo. ''The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic''. Bucknell University Press, 2010.

External links

* 1965 films Brazilian musical films Spanish musical films 1965 musical films 1960s Spanish-language films Films directed by Rafael Gil Suevia Films films 1960s Spanish films {{musical-film-stub