Eduardo Coutinho
Birthday: 1933-05-11
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Biography: Eduardo de Oliveira Coutinho OMC (São Paulo, May 11, 1933 — Rio de Janeiro, February 2, 2014) was a Brazilian filmmaker and journalist. He is considered by many to be the greatest documentary filmmaker in the history of Brazilian cinema. His brand was to make films that privileged the stories of ordinary people. His masterpiece is Cabra Marcado para Morrer, which marked his career as Brazil's leading documentary filmmaker. Among other notable works of his career are the documentaries Santo Forte, Edifício Master, Peões, Jogo de Cena and As Canções.
Movies
Babilônia 2000
Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of ...
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Twenty Years Later
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when th...
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The Memory Thread
A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popula...
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Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro
A conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods....
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capit...
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Câncer
This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws,...
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Last Conversations
Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (i...
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Madame Satã
In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of ...
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Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Mod...
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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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1964: 40 Years After
Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on Ma...
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The Girl from Ipanema
Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of ...
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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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The Method
The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the cha...
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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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Dib
Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, co...
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Sete Visitas
How much theatricality is there in an interview-based documentary? On one side, someone answers. On ...
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Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608
The audience follows the creative process of the filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho in the documentary, from...
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Capturing Reality
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol M...
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Critic
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observe...
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Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira
Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho....
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A Treat of Coutinho
Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with ...
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Coutinho Reporter
In an open conversation with Eduardo Coutinho, the filmmaker analyzes the period he worked for Globo...
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Master, a Building in Copacabana
The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de ...
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Moscow
Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns hi...
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