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.
Production
Rare archival footage of Rocha's volcanic energy
Direction
Tendler lets the contradictions breathe
Writing
Friends' testimonies read like love letters to chaos
Director
Silvio Tendler
Glauber Rocha
Self (archive footage)
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
Self
Zuenir Ventura
Self / Interviewee
Gustavo Dahl
Self / Interviewee
Mário Carneiro
Self / Interviewee
Helena Ignez
Self
Carlos Diegues
Self / Interviewee
Orlando Senna
Self / Interviewee
Darcy Ribeiro
Self (archive footage)
Maria Lúcia Godoy
Self (archive footage)
Fernando Birri
Self
Lino Miccichè
Self
Ana Maria Magalhães
Self / Interviewee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rocha's 1964 manifesto 'An Esthetic of Hunger' was written in three hours on bar napkins. Typical.
Cinema Novo emerged under dictatorship — this film premiered when Brazil's democracy was barely older than Rocha was when he died.
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