Ruth de Souza
Birthday: 1921-05-12
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biography: Ruth Pinto de Souza was considered one of the great ladies of Brazilian dramaturgy and the first great reference for black artists on television for her notable roles. Ruth stood out for being the first black actress to star in a soap opera on Rede Globo in A Cabana do Pai Tomás (1969) — and the second on Brazilian television, after Yolanda Braga, in A Cor da Sua Pele (1965) on TV Tupi — in addition to being the first Brazilian artist nominated for the best actress award at an international film festival, for her work in Sinhá Moça (1954) at the Venice Film Festival.
Movies
Conversations with Ruth de Souza
Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil...
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Candinho
Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, ...
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Daughters of the Wind
In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart....
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Primavera
Moments before a father's death, all of his family memories are transferred to his son through a dre...
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Distraída para a Morte
Three black teenagers walk around town. The two boys laugh at their own racist jokes while the girl ...
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Boca
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with th...
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Macumba Love
A writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo cult...
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The Landowner's Daughter
In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the f...
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Death Commands Brigandage
A man's farm is attacked and his mother gets killed. Looking for revenge, he goes about chasing the ...
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Assault on the Pay Train
Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho...
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A Fit of Rage
The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small far...
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Only One Survived
Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble....
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Também Somos Irmãos
Renato and Miro are black brothers raised by a white family in an old mansion in Rio de Janeiro. Ren...
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Jubiabá
Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the...
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Osso, Amor e Papagaios
A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold....
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Denying Brazil
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian televis...
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Em Quadro: A História de 4 Negros nas Telas
A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil....
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O Vendedor de Passados
A man, who creates pasts for a living, struggles to find his own past while a mysterious woman takes...
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Lonesome Women
In a desolate area of Brazilian mountainside, cut off from civilization, an old miner discovers a ki...
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Fruit of Love
Blum and Elza conduct Scientific and anthropological researches in a desert island, where they use a...
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Ravina
A woman, who believes she has a curse, sees an engineer die in an accident while building a bridge. ...
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Movie Theaters of Rio
The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since ...
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Pureza Proibida
Baby is found by nuns, who raise her inside the convent. When she grows up, she moves to a fishing v...
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Angela
A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even...
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Bruma Seca
An executive inherits a mine and decides to visit it with his wife, with the help of an airplane pil...
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Sweet Thieves
After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decide...
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Terra é Sempre Terra
The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property...
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O Cabeleira
Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th...
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High Art
Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous unde...
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Favela
A girl goes from a favela to the luxurious scenarios of the international singing industry...
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Pitanga
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Blac...
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Who Killed Pacifico?
Roberto, Pierre and Pedro are very different men, with very different life paths; However, one thing...
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As Divas Negras do Cinema Brasileiro
Interviews and performances with black women on film, theater and television who narrate their lives...
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Pressed, Ripped Apart
What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and act...
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Filhas de Lavadeiras
Stories of black women who, thanks to the relentless toil of their mothers, were able to attend scho...
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Eu, Mulher Negra
Prepared by the team of the Program for Training Black Researchers, The video brings together images...
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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activi...
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O Cinema das Mulheres
Passionate about the magic of cinema and historically imposed on a place of invisibility, prejudices...
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Carolina Maria de Jesus
The documentary tells the story of writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, who became a success in the 60s a...
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Ney - À Flor da Pele
The impact of Ney Matogrosso's performances on his audience and the reverberation of that impact on ...
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