
Anselmo Duarte
Actor · 1920 – 2009 · Salto, São Paulo, Brazil
Anselmo Duarte Bento (April 21, 1920 – November 7, 2009) was a Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director. Initially known as a leading man in popular musical comedies (known in Brazil as "chanchadas"), he debuted as filmmaker in 1957's "Absolutamente Certo", in which he also stars. His next film, "O Pagador de Promessas" (1962), adapted from a stage play by Dias Gomes, won the Golden Palm at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. It is, to date, the only Brazilian feature film to be so distinguished and the first Cannes' Southern Hemisphere Golden Palm for best feature film. Duarte was awarded with the Order of The Cultural Merit, Brazil's highest cultural civilian honor, and with the Order of Ipiranga, which is the state of São Paulo's highest civilian honor. He was also awarded with titles of merit citizenship by numerous Brazilian municipalities including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salto, his birthplace. In 2009, the municipality of Salto inaugurated a multimillion-dollar cultural and educational center named "Centro Cultural e Educacional Anselmo Duarte", housing a 500 audience amphitheater for film and theatrical events. The center also displays for public view the original "Golden Palm" awarded to Duarte at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. n 2008, at 88, Duarte founded a cultural organization (Instituto Anselmo Duarte) dedicated to restoring selected Brazilian films and creating special, free of charge, educational projects aimed at young filmmakers to improve their technical filmmaking skills. After his death, his son, Ricardo Duarte, 69, became the institute's president. Upon being diagnosed by suffering Alzheimer's dementia in 2002, Duarte spent his last 7 years of life under the care of his son, Ricardo, and his grandchild, Daphne, a preeminent Brazilian artist. Anselmo had 4 children. Reaching stage 6 on his Alzheimer illness condition, a bladder cancer was detected which led to a severe blood hemorrhage, precipitating a heart stroke. Although both the bladder cancer and heart conditions had been successfully treated, a sudden massive hemorrhagic brain stroke left the legendary Brazilian actor and filmmaker in a coma for 6 days, which led to his passing on November 7, 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anselmo Duarte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies21
Movie6.7ComedyRomanceA man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness.
Movie8.1DocumentaryAssim Era a Atlântida
1975 · 4 votes
Movie10.0RomanceComedyRomantic comedy...
Querida Suzana
1947 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DocumentaryAbout English photographer Chick Fowle. Statements by Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Vilar, Marlene França, Vanja Orico. A film about directors, actors and teams that Chick Fowle worked and works with, also showing the possibility of renewal that Brazilian cinema can and must have.
Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema
1981 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryDocumentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.
Movie9.0ComedyIn a workshop there are six workers, the six are brothers. Enter the mother who asks them to rescue the seventh brother, the youngest, Luis. The brothers hesitate because the youngster keeps getting into trouble, but they end up giving in to the request. Gangsters are fighting in a bar and the workers end up getting into the fray.
O Caçula do Barulho
1949 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaSaul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.
A Casa das Tentações
1977 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyNinguém Segura Essas Mulheres
1976 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyMusicA singer is in love with the wife of a rich banker. Both men have the same analyst who allow them to swap souls.
O Cantor e o Milionário
1958 · 1 votes
Movie7.0CrimeHorrorFour thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.
Paranóia
1976 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMusic
Movie7.0CrimeAdventureA mine boss hires a policeman to chase some runaways who stole a precious diamond.
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An unfinished omnibus film project by Orson Welles exploring Latin American life through documentary and dramatized non-fiction.
It's All True
1943
Movie9.0CrimeThrillerTensão no Rio
1984 · 1 votes
Movie8.0HistoryDramaReconstruction of the historical episode of the Inconfidência Mineira (Minas Conspiracy).
Movie8.0CrimeDramaA drama about double personality
Movie4.2ComedySexual adventures of a prostitute's son and a bordello owner, who like to swap women.
Embalos Alucinantes: A Troca de Casais
1979 · 6 votes
MovieMusicDocumentaryA host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.
Movie5.6ComedyMusicA man and a woman have been secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor actress and singer that is failing to success in her career. One day, he decides to tell his family that he's married and flies to Italy, where they live, but the flight has an accident and he dies. The man's brother goes to Spain to look for the body, and he discovers not only that his brother is married, also that his brother's wife is pregnant.
Un rayo de luz
1960 · 28 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryCreated by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews, film clips, testimonials, photos, and extraordinary footage from the Celi family's personal archive, we will revisit the places that shaped his life.
Movie7.5DramaDelfino, a quiet man who lives in Congonhas do Campo, a small historical town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is urged by his friend to steal the image of the Madona de Cedro (the Cedar Madonna), sculpted by Aleijadinho in the 18th century, from the town sanctuary.
A Madona de Cedro
1968 · 2 votes
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TV9.4SoapComedyRomantic and dreamy, Eliana works at a five-star hotel and becomes involved with unrequited love, a bumbling gang, and a complex police story.
Feijão Maravilha
1979 · 7 votes