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Fernando Amaral dos Guimarães Peixoto (Porto Alegre, May 19, 1937 - São Paulo, January 15, 2012) was a writer, translator, actor and theater director, linked to Teatro Oficina de São Paulo, until 1968. Author of several works linked to Brechtian conceptions, having been a member of the central committee of the Brazilian Communist Party.
Total trailers found: 17
01 January 1975
A docufiction film about the fall of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, widely known as Lampião – the mythical bandit leader from the Brazilian northeast who fought the local power and put his name in history.
21 June 1989
Paulo is a rich lawyer who has a happy and comfortable family life, with his kid and very loyal to his wife.
19 December 1975
Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais, Totônio is a symbol of the golden age of state farms: old and accustomed to having all his wills obeyed.
20 August 1976
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military.
28 September 1981
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices.
13 June 1970
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 survival.
01 June 1976
In 1910, in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, a man is expelled from his own land by the ruthless colonel who owns the sugar mill.
10 April 2021
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards.
17 November 1967
Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom.
22 February 1982
Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil.
14 December 1970
Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes.
15 December 1975
Rui arrives in a small town looking for his father, a prospector. Before that, he gets involved with Maria, who is facing problems in the family.
17 February 1978
A series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle involved.
