Silvio Tendler (born 1950) is a Brazilian

filmmaker Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a Film, motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, beginning with an initial story, idea, or commission. Production then continues through screen ...

. 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 Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. Kubitschek's government plan, dubbed "50 years i ...

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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, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ...

in 1950, Tendler is graduated in History at the

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Pari ...

(1975), majored in Cinema and History at the

École pratique des hautes études The (), abbreviated EPHE, is a French postgraduate top level educational institution, a . EPHE is a constituent college of the Université PSL (together with ENS Ulm, Paris Dauphine or Ecole des Mines). The college is closely linked to É ...

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

Chris Marker Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) (born ''Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve'') was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and Essay#Film, film essayist. His best known films are ''La Jetée' ...

. The acquaintanceship with Marker and other filmmakers, including

Jean Rouch Jean Rouch (; 31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French Filmmaking, filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker, for over 60 years in Africa, was char ...

, Wladimir Carvalho, Santiago Álvarez and

Joris Ivens Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are '' A Tale of the Wind'', ''The Spanish Earth'', ''Rain'', ''...A Valparaiso'', '' Misèr ...

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 Dedé Santana, Zacarias, Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó (Renato Aragão). The name ''Os Trapalhões'' (which can ...

, ''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)

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