José Marinho

This densely-packed and odd docudrama refers back to Orson Welles' 1942 visit to Brazil to make a movie called "It's All True." Using newsreel footage from that period, re-enactments of his visit, and excerpts from his movies and radio shows, director Rogerio Sganzerla seems to imply that politics intervened in Welles' project, cutting it short...

In the small town of Taperoá, João Grilo and Chicó cause confusions, addressing a humble clerk and a baker. People from there live under the excesses of the bishop, the priest and the major. Until, in an attack on the city, all die at the hands of the bandit Severino and must face a trial in the sky, which puts everyone before God and the Virgin Mary.

During the military dictatorship, Dr. Athos Moreira Brazil is a coroner, cold and lonely doctor who provides services to the organs of political repression, forging reports natural for victims of torture regima death. He falls for Tana Divino, sensual, mystical and loving, who works at a nightclub, voicing famous singers.

Sugarcane mill is modernized by the owner's son, opposing his father's wishes. He is sent to study in a big city and, when Governor João Pessoa dies, he comes back to his hometown and his loved one, Soledade, trying to start a revolution in the sugarcane fields. But his father also loves Soledade, and they have to compete for her love. (imdb)

An important part of Brazilian history, this is the story of Anayde Beiriz - as played by Tania Alves - poetess, journalist, teacher, a revolutionary in her time (the 1920s and 1930s), and known for her sexuality. Her great love for João Dantas triggered the assassination of Joao Pessoa, the Governor of Brazil's Parahyba State. These events were then used politically as pretext for the "Revolution of 1930." (imdb)

Carlos is fat, one wealthy family of fellow, but sad for rejection because of their weight. It is when he meets Sakhan fakir, a thin man, who struggle to live and left the northeast of Brazil to the big city.

Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte’s countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas decides to increase his patrimony even further by exploiting ores. To do this, he tries to appropriate the small site of Antônio Vaqueiro. Desperate, Antônio rushes to the aid of the gypsy healer Maria dos Remédios and the poet and dreamer Tião Poeta to face the greed of Elói.