Jorge Bodanzky Movies

Documentary that tells several stories: of the struggle of rural workers in Conceição to recover their union; of Dona Mariquinha, widow...

In 8 miniatures, the search for happiness is approached from a different angle. Can you have a guinea pig as a husband? Can horses survive on Venus?...

Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black...

A brief look at the traditional Bexiga, am important neighborhood in the early 20th century with the massive arrival of Italian immigrants who felt...

A parallel of the life and work of two Volkswagen workers, one in Brazil and the other in Germany, who perform identical functions in assembling the...

During the height of the military dictatorship, Jorge Bodanzky documented the construction of the Humboldt University [research station] in Mato...

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A...

The film evokes the stay in Brazil of Claude Levi-Strauss, an ethnologist, who stayed there from 1934 to 1938. His stay gave rise to the book...

Fragments of fairy tales alternate with observations of children. Documentary and staged sequences are combined. There is no break and no contrast...

Documentary about homeless people squatting in São Paulo, Brazil.

The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their...

A woman asks her boyfriend for his mother's heart as a proof of love. Another, a kleptomaniac, has an affair with a TV professional. And a young man...

Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own...

The documentary questions the knowledge of sociology in the face of the crises of the contemporary world. Experts in the subject discuss and evaluate...