Cinema Novo

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Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Glauber Rocha
Glauber Rocha

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Leon Hirszman
Leon Hirszman

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Carlos Diegues
Cacá Diegues

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Paulo César Saraceni
Paulo César Saraceni

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Ruy Guerra
Ruy Guerra

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Luiz Carlos Barreto
Luiz Carlos Barreto

Self - Film Producer (archive footage)

Walter Lima Jr.
Walter Lima Jr.

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Gustavo Dahl
Gustavo Dahl

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

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    A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

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    2016-05-16

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