Leon Hirszman
Birthday: 1937-11-22
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biography: Leon Hirszman (Rio de Janeiro, November 22, 1937 — Rio de Janeiro, September 15, 1987) was a Brazilian filmmaker and one of the main exponents of the movement known as Cinema Novo. A member of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), his work is marked by the influence of central Marxist theses in political debates in Latin America and by the politicized representation of the working class.
Movies
Bahia de Todos os Sambas
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brou...
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo...
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ABC of a Strike
ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouc...
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorshi...
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The Beggars
A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins...
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Cinema Novo
A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in c...
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Afterword: Images of the Unconscious
Dialoguing directly with the trilogy of documentaries “Images of the Unconscious”, made between 1983...
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Let Me Tell You
The documentary presents the biography of filmmaker Leon Hirszman, director of Cinema Novo, who made...
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Guarnieri
Develops from the life, work and memory of Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, one of the most important names ...
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