Nelson Pereira dos Santos

AKA: Нелсон Перейра дус Сантус, Нельсон Перейра дос Сантос, Нельсон Перейра дус Сантус
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1928-10-22

São Paulo, Brazil

Biography

Nelson Pereira dos Santos ComRB • OMC (São Paulo, October 22, 1928 — Rio de Janeiro, April 21, 2018) was a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. Having been one of the founders of the Cinema Novo movement, his production spans a period of 60 years in the history of Brazil. Considered one of the most important filmmakers in the country, he was strongly influenced by the works of the 1930s generation of Brazilian literary modernism, having adapted works by Graciliano Ramos and Jorge Amado for cinema. His film Vidas Secas, based on Graciliano's novel, is one of the most awarded Brazilian films of all time, being recognized as a masterpiece. In 2006, he was elected Immortal by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, a position he held until his death in 2018.

Crew Roles

Barren Lives
Director
Barren Lives
Screenplay
Memories of Prison
Producer
Jornalismo e Independência
Director
The Amulet of Ogum
Director
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
Director
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
Writer
Who Is Beta?
Director
Music According to Tom Jobim
Director
The Third Bank of the River
Director
Rio, 100 Degrees F°
Director
Hunger for Love
Director
The Alienist
Director
The Amulet of Ogum
Cinematography
The Amulet of Ogum
Producer
Rio, Northern Zone
Director
Golden Mouth
Director
El Justicero
Director
Memories of Prison
Director
Memories of Prison
Writer
Um Ladrão
Director
The Grand Moment
Producer
Tent of Miracles
Director
Tent of Miracles
Writer
A Luz do Tom
Director
Mandacaru Vermelho
Director
Mandacaru Vermelho
Writer
Mandacaru Vermelho
Producer
Brasília 18%
Director
Brasília 18%
Writer
A Missa do Galo
Director
A Missa do Galo
Writer
Meu Compadre, Zé Ketti
Director
The Highway of Life
Director
Raízes do Brasil
Director
A Public Opinion
Producer
Português - A Língua do Brasil
Director
Jubiabá
Director
Cinema de Lágrimas
Director
Cinema de Lágrimas
Screenplay
Fala Brasília
Director
Fala Brasília
Editor
Menino da Calça Branca
Editor
The Turning Wind
Editor
O Saci
Assistant Director
Jubiabá
Executive Producer
The Amulet of Ogum
Writer
Casa Grande & Senzala
Director
As Aventuras Amorosas de um Padeiro
Producer
Insônia
Director
Insônia
Writer
Music According to Tom Jobim
Screenplay
Rio, 100 Degrees F°
Story
Who Is Beta?
Writer
A Seventy-Four Year-Old Fellow
Director
A Seventy-Four Year-Old Fellow
Writer
The Alienist
Screenplay
Sonhei com Você
Producer
Uma Mensagem de Chico Xavier
Director
The Third Bank of the River
Screenplay
Five Times Favela
Editor
Maioria absoluta
Editor
Uma Mensagem de Chico Xavier
Camera Operator
Go Ahead, Brazil!
Assistant Production Manager
El Justicero
Writer
El Justicero
Producer
Golden Mouth
Writer
Rio, Northern Zone
Screenplay
Jubiabá
Writer
Juventude
Director
Rio, 100 Degrees F°
Screenplay
Hunger for Love
Writer
Cantores e Trovadores
Editor
The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga
Associate Producer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {32}

Self

2021-03-18 0

The Good Cinema

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carl ...
Genre :Documentary

2014-04-02 0

O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro

Documentary on the view, testimonies and times of Darcy Ribeiro, since military dictatorship. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2007-09-04 0

Sambando nas Brasas, Morô?

The adventures of Pedro, a musician who is trying his luck in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950's. He leaves his hometown Belo Horizonte to share a lodging with his brother Carlos in Rio. During one of his ...
Genre :Drama, History, Documentary

1971-12-24 0

Brazil in Cannes

The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the transition from film to industrialized production. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2003-09-17 5.8

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues. ...
Genre :Documentary

1991-01-01 0

Que Viva Glauber!

Genre :Documentary

Self

1967-01-01 7.5

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

2002-03-07 5.8

How to Die in Cinema

Memories of a parrot who participated in the filming of the classic Vidas Secas, in 1962, where it was featured along the puppy Baleia. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2015-06-30 0

Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro. ...
Genre :Documentary

Augusto

1961-11-27 6.6

Mandacaru Vermelho

Despite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Self

2002-07-07 7

At the Edge of the Earth

On 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere in Capitólio Theater in Rio de Janeiro to astonished audiences bewildered by the impressive and poetic ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2019-05-15 0

Memórias do Grupo Opinião

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing resp ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2021-10-28 0

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar

Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actr ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2023-05-17 7

Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema

For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world. Precursor of Cinema Novo, Nelson was, more than a director, he was an ideologue, a thinker of ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2015-10-05 8

Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro

Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2011-08-22 0

Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro

Genre :Documentary

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2016-05-16 6.7

Cinema Novo

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 ...
Genre :Documentary, History

2013-01-22 8

Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade

Genre :Documentary

Self

1989-01-02 0

Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo

Genre :Documentary

Self

1997-01-02 0

Dib

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema. ...
Genre :Documentary

1971-01-01 0

Nelson Filma

Genre :Documentary

1969-05-13 7.1

Garden of War

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead. ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2008-01-22 7.9

Critic

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies abo ...
Genre :Documentary

2007-01-02 0

Português - A Língua do Brasil

16 members from the Brazilian Academy of Letters share their views on the current situation of the portuguese language. ...
Genre :Documentary

1998-05-15 5

For All - O Trampolim da Vitória

1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies. Giancarlo, an Italian immigrant married to a Brazilian woman, lives nearby the Parnamirin Field, the largest ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, War

Self

2017-03-31 0

Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than o ...
Genre :Documentary, History

1991-07-11 0

Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?

Genre :Documentary

2018-07-09 0

A música que meu pai gostava

Nelson Pereira dos Santos talks about The Highway of Life (1980) ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2006-01-01 0

Referências

During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo Bulbul gathered some of the most notorious Brazilian blac ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2021-01-01 0

Nelson Filma o Rio

The city of Rio de Janeiro in the films of Nelson Pereira dos Santos contextualized by critic Rodrigo Fonseca. ...
Genre :Documentary

2008-08-14 0

A Paz é Dourada

The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a failed attempt at directing his biopic in the 1980s and 1990s. Footage from the unfinished film is i ...
Genre :Documentary, Drama

Self (archive footage)

2020-10-22 5

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that o ...
Genre :Documentary