Glauber Rocha
Glauber Rocha’s avant-garde films depict Brazil’s history and upheavals in its social and political scene in a stylized, often violent manner. He began his career as a journalist and film critic, and his first short film, Pátio (1959), caught the attention of critics and prompted his rise to fame. He studied Law. He also directed theatre pieces, wrote movie critics and took part in the creation and development of the Cinema Novo (New Cinema) movement in Rio de Janeiro, becoming its theoretical leader and first embassador in Europe. After Barravento (1962), Black God, White Devil (1964), Entranced Earth (1967) and Antonio das Mortes (1969), he won various international prizes. As he symbolized the feelings of the ideology of May 1968, he became very popular in Europe and America. Rocha was at odds politically with Brazil’s rulers, and his conflicts with Brazilian authorities led to his leaving the country in 1970. He filmed in Africa, Spain and Portugal, and returned to Brazil in the late 1970s, where he also hosted the popular politics TV show Abertura. His last film was the controversial The Age of the Earth (1980).
Known For
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- 2022 · 11 and a Half Questions to Julio Calasso as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · The Good Cinema as Self
- 2020 · Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Glauber, Claro as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Race Antenna as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · O Fantasma de Glauber Rocha as
- 2019 · A Mulher da Luz Própria as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Memórias do Grupo Opinião as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 · Cinema Novo as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2015 · Os Cravos e a Rocha as
- 2015 · Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Life is Strange as Himself
- 2015 · El Viaje Glauber as Ele mesmo
- 2014 · O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro as
- 2011 · Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 · A Hora do leão - Os sete leões de Glauber as
- 2009 · Três cortes para Glauber as
- 2008 · Ecos de Cannes as
- 2008 · O Retorno do Dragão as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 · Days in Sintra as
- 2008 · Milagrez as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha as
- 2007 · O Brasil de Glauber Rocha as
- 2006 · Manifesto Glauber as
- 2006 · Depois do Transe as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth as
- 2004 · Retrato da Terra as Ele mesmo
- 2004 · A Degola Fatal as
- 2003 · Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · Abry as Self (archive footage)
- 2002 · Rocha Que Voa as
- 2000 · Another Country as Self
- 2000 · Glauber em Tempo - Redescobrindo o Brasil as
- 1998 · A Mãe as
- 1998 · Entangling Shadows as (voice)
- 1997 · At Midnight with Glauber Rocha as
- 1991 · Que Viva Glauber! as (archive footage)
- 1987 · No Tempo de Glauber as
- 1982 · Loja dos Trapos do Coração as
- 1981 · Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo as
- 1980 · The Age of the Earth as Ele mesmo
- 1979 · Abertura as Presenter
- 1979 · ORG as Self (archive footage)
- 1979 · Jorge Amado no Cinema as
- 1977 · Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber as Narrator
- 1975 · Mauro, Humberto as
- 1975 · Claro as
- 1975 · As Armas e o Povo as Himself
- 1971 · Tatu Bola as
- 1970 · Wind from the East as (uncredited)
- 1970 · Diario Spagnolo as Él mismo
- 1969 · Bahia, For Example as Self
- 1967 · Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo as Self
- 1965 · Simon of the Desert as Man in nightclub
- 1961 · A Grande Feira as Homem empurrando mulher
- Future · Steps as