Directors: Jorge Furtado, Ana Luiza Azevado, José Pedro Goulart, Roberto Henkin, Liliana Sulzbach
Writers: Jorge Furtado, Ana Luiza Azevedo, Gilba Assis Brasil
Actors: Antônio Fagundes, Pedro Santos, Zé Vitor Castiel, Ariel Nehring, Abel Borba, João Acaiabe, Pedro Santos, Zé Adão Barbosa, Sirmar Antunes, Lui Strassburger, João Batista Diemer, Catherine Lestre de Rey, Maria Verbena de Souza, Carlos Cunha, Ilana Kaplan, Angel Palomero, Toninho Vasconcelos, Paulo César Pereio, Pedro Cardoso, Carlos Cunha Filho, Lisa Becker
Production Co.: Fundação Nacional de Arte (Brazil), Cult Filmes, Casa de Cinema
Year: 1999
Country: Brazil
Format: VHS
[ratings]
Summary: In Barbosa a man goes back in time thirty-eight years to the 1950 World cup in order to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams, and finished the career of goalkeeper Barbosa–Cf. publisher’s website.
O dia em que Dorival encarou a guarda is set “in a military prison, on a sweltering night, [and] the black prisoner Dorival has one wish only: to take a shower. In order to do that, he will have to face a frightened young soldier, a corporal obsessed with being a hero, a sergeant who misses his girlfriend, a despotic lieutenant – and turn a quiet night at the barracks into hell”–Cf. publishers website.
Memória: “In Brazil, film copies can be shown for 5 years then they are destroyed. A factory in São Paulo uses copies of films as raw material to make brooms. 25 years after retiring from public life, Jânio Quadros is elected mayor of São Paulo. 1989 is a decisive year for Brazil: the first general elections in 3 decades. Some candidates are old familiar faces. But nobody remembers anymore what happened last time”–Cf. publisher’s website.
Batalha naval tells the story of “a disaster, the collapse of a bridge, [which] is followed by the greatest disaster of all: human stupidity. This bridge was the link between two important agricultural production towns. For two years, the crossing had to be made by boat because no government department would do anything about it”–Cf. publishers website.
A matadeira tells the story of the Canudos massacre through the story of an English cannon, nicknamed ‘Matadeira’ (Killer) by the locals, and which was transported across the Northeastern back country by twenty-one yokes of oxen in order to shoot one single shot”–Cf. publishers website.