Silvio Tendler (born 1950) is a Brazilian filmmaker. With more than 40 films released by 2014, including feature and short films, Tendler is one of the most respected Brazilian documentarist. Due to his focus on people like

Juscelino Kubitschek Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (; 12 September 1902 – 22 August 1976), also known by his initials JK, was a prominent Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. His term was marked by economic prosp ...

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, and

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, he is known as "the filmmaker of the defeated" or "the filmmaker of interrupted dreams".

Biography

Born in

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 b ...

in 1950, Tendler is graduated in History at the

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(1975), majored in Cinema and History at the École pratique des hautes études in Sorbonne (1976), and especialized in Documentary Cinema Applied to Social Sciences at the

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in Sorbonne (1973). During his stay in France, he worked on the collaborative documentary ''La spirale'' in 1975 with several directors, among them

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. The acquaintanceship with Marker and other filmmakers, including Jean Rouch, Wladimir Carvalho, Santiago Álvarez and

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is remarked by Tendler. He returned from France to Brazil, and decided to make a film about Juscelino Kubitschek. It resulted in ''Os Anos JK – Uma Trajetória Política'' (1980), a box office success with 800,000 viewers. In 1981, he directed a film about

Os Trapalhões Os Trapalhões () was a Brazilian comedy group and a television series of the same name created by Wilton Franco. Its members were Dedé (Dedé Santana), Zacarias ( Zacarias Gonçalves), Mussum ( Carlinhos Mussum) and their leader Didi Mocó (Rena ...

, ''O Mundo Mágico dos Trapalhões'', which became the most watched Brazilian documentary of all time with over 1.8 million viewers. In that same year, he created Caliban Produções Cinematográficas, a production company focused on historical biographies.

Filmography

Feature films

*''Os Anos JK – Uma Trajetória Política'' (1980) *''O Mundo Mágico dos Trapalhões'' (1981) *'' Jango'' (1984) *''Castro Alves - Retrato Falado do Poeta '' (1998) *'' Glauber o Filme, Labirinto do Brasil'' (2003) *''Encontro com Milton Santos: O Mundo Global Visto do Lado de Cá'' (2006) *''Utopia e Barbárie'' (2008) *''Tancredo, a Travessia'' (2010) *''O veneno está na mesa'' (2011) *''O veneno está na mesa 2'' (2014)

References

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