Othon Bastos — Actor (27)
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Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000)
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Zelito Viana actor: Antônio Fagundes / Marcos Palmeira …
other title: Villa-Lobos: Uma Vida de Paixão / Villa-Lobos, une vie passionnée …
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil.
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The Patriot (1998)
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Paulo Thiago actor: Paulo José / Giulia Gam …
other title: Policarpo Quaresma, Herói do Brasil / 波利卡波・夸雷斯马：巴西英雄 …
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.
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The Nutty Boy (1995)
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Helvécio Ratton actor: Samuel Costa / Patricia Pillar …
other title: Menino Maluquinho - O Filme / Die kleine Nervensäge …
The principal character in Helvécio Ratton's delightful film has been adapted from a book and comic created by the Brazilian cartoonist Ziraldo, and tells the tale of a happy-go-lucky 10-year-old child growing up in a city in the 60s.
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Sermões (1989)
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Júlio Bressane actor: Othon Bastos / Antônio Abujamra …
other title: Sermões: A História de Antônio Vieira / 布道——安东尼奥维埃拉的历史
Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.
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The Patient (2018)
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Sérgio Rezende actor: Othon Bastos / Esther Góes …
other title: O Paciente - O Caso Tancredo Neves
The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.
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Cine Mambembe: Cinema Discovers Brazil (1999)
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莱丝·博丹斯基 / Luiz Bolognesi actor: 奥顿·巴斯托斯 / Luiz Bolognesi …
other title: Cine Mambembe - O Cinema Descobre o Brasil
Laís Bodanzky and Luiz Bolognesi travel around the small cities of Brazil, exhibiting short films in public squares. From the south of Bahia to the farthest parts of Amazon, this documentary discovers a country that watches a movie and sees itself on the screen for the very first time, in the turning of the 21st century. What’s seen and heard is truly surprising.
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Pitanga (2016)
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Beto Brant / Camila Pitanga actor: Antônio Pitanga / Camila Pitanga …
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.