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Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Nelson Pereira dos Santos was a Brazilian film director. He directed films such as Vidas Secas (Barren Lives), based on the book with the same name by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos. He also directed Rio 40° (his first feature film) which was released in 1955. The film is a chronicle of life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and it influenced several other directors, spurring the Cinema Novo moment. His most well-known film outside of Brazil is Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, 1971). It was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival. The film takes place in the sixteenth century and details the alleged cannibalistic practices of the (now extinct) indigenous Tupinamba warrior tribe against the French and Portuguese colonizers of the Brazilian littoral. The film is something of a black comedy about European colonialism, one that makes satirical use of the Brazilian modernist trope of antropofagia (cultural cannibalism), then recently revived by the Tropicalismo movement of the 1960s, as well as a bitter commentary on the historical genocide of the indigenous tribes in Latin America and the gradual destruction of their civilization. Santos was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 2006 up to his death, result of multiple organ failure, on 12 April 2018.
Known For
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- 2023 · Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar as Self
- 2021 · The Good Cinema as Self
- 2019 · Memórias do Grupo Opinião as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · A música que meu pai gostava as
- 2017 · Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century as Self
- 2016 · Cinema Novo as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2015 · Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro as Self
- 2015 · Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema as Self
- 2014 · O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro as
- 2013 · Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade as
- 2011 · Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 · Crítico as Self
- 2007 · Sambando nas Brasas, Morô? as Self
- 2007 · Português - A Língua do Brasil as
- 2006 · Referências as Self
- 2003 · Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth as Self
- 2002 · At the Edge of the Earth as Self
- 2002 · How to Die in Cinema as Himself
- 1998 · For All - O Trampolim da Vitória as
- 1997 · Dib as Self
- 1991 · Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer? as
- 1991 · Que Viva Glauber! as
- 1989 · Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo as Self
- 1971 · Brazil in Cannes as
- 1971 · Nelson Filma as
- 1968 · Garden of War as
- 1967 · Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo as Self
- 1961 · Mandacaru Vermelho as Augusto