Roberto Santos

Roberto Santos

Roberto Santos Pinhanez (1928–1987) was a Brazilian film director, known for films like Matraga (A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga) and The Great Moment (O Grande Momento). Santos was born in a working-class suburb of São Paulo in 1928. He started his cinema activities around 1952, in the first big studio built in Brazil, the Vera Cruz Studio. In 1956, Santos made his first movie, O Grande Momento (The Great Moment), the first neo-realistic movie made in Brazil. In 1965, Roberto Santos adapted a short novel by Guimaraes Rosa, A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga (Matraga), the only successful adaptation to cinema of a work by Guimaraes Rosa, the most important name in Brazilian literature in this century. The film was shown at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. During the late 1960s and 1970s, his career was marked by problems with censorship. Nevertheless, he directed six more movies, among them, two experimental movies; Vozes do Medo (Voices of Fear) — a movie with the structure of a magazine — and As Tres Mortes de Solano (The Three Deaths of Solano), an experiment where the same plot is told three times, first in the fantastic realm, then as a realistic plot, and finally as a circus pantomime. Meanwhile, he worked in television and directed commercials. The success of an adaptation for TV of another Guimaraes Rosa's story prompted him to write a screenplay for the short novel Campo Geral, about a kid growing in the back-country of Brazil. After months of trouble to obtain the rights, the project was abandoned, and he decided to tackle another myth of Brazilian literature, Machado de Assis. His last movie, Quincas Borba, recreated Machado de Assis's fin-de-siecle universe in the troubled 1980s. Roberto Santos died of a heart attack at the São Paulo airport in 1987, just after returning from the Festival of Gramado, where Quincas Borba was shown and heavily criticized by a clique of critics.

  • Title: Roberto Santos
  • Popularity: 0.025
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1928-04-15
  • Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Homepage: http://www.cineastarobertosantos.com.br/
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Roberto Santos Movies

  • 2021
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    The Good Cinema

    The Good Cinema

    1 2021 HD

    An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the...

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  • 2013
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    Ozualdo Candeias and the Cinema

    Ozualdo Candeias and the Cinema

    1 2013 HD

    Using a mixture of film clips and interviews with Ozualdo Candeias himself the film tells the director's 40 year trajectory.

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  • 1978
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    Stop 88

    Stop 88

    6 1978 HD

    Residents of the city of Parada 88, contaminated in 1994 due to the explosion of a chemical industry reactor, live in plastic tunnels, the only way...

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  • 1968
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    A João Guimarães Rosa

    A João Guimarães Rosa

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga

    The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga

    7.1 1965 HD

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  • 1975
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    Ponto Final

    Ponto Final

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1981
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    Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema

    Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema

    5 1981 HD

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  • 1963
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    Gimba, Presidente dos Valentes

    Gimba, Presidente dos Valentes

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Grand Moment

    The Grand Moment

    5.7 1958 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga

    The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga

    7.1 1965 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Grand Moment

    The Grand Moment

    5.7 1958 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Naked Man

    The Naked Man

    6.2 1968 HD

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  • 1971
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    Um Anjo Mau

    Um Anjo Mau

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga

    The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga

    7.1 1965 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Grand Moment

    The Grand Moment

    5.7 1958 HD

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  • 1971
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    Um Anjo Mau

    Um Anjo Mau

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1979
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    Rain Lovers

    Rain Lovers

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Rain Lovers

    Rain Lovers

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1980
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    Erotic Stories

    Erotic Stories

    6 1980 HD

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  • 1967
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    Bebel, Garota Propaganda

    Bebel, Garota Propaganda

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Bebel, Garota Propaganda

    Bebel, Garota Propaganda

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1983
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    Nasce uma Mulher

    Nasce uma Mulher

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1970
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    Juliana do Amor Perdido

    Juliana do Amor Perdido

    6 1970 HD

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  • 1972
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    Vozes do Medo

    Vozes do Medo

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1966
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    As Cariocas

    As Cariocas

    6 1966 HD

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  • 1965
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    Viramundo

    Viramundo

    8.4 1965 HD

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  • 1976
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    As Três Mortes de Solano

    As Três Mortes de Solano

    4.3 1976 HD

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  • 1988
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    Quincas Borba

    Quincas Borba

    3 1988 HD

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  • 1985
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    A Construção da Liberdade

    A Construção da Liberdade

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1975
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    O Predileto

    O Predileto

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1963
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    Primeira Chance

    Primeira Chance

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1983
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    Nasce uma Mulher

    Nasce uma Mulher

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1988
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    Quincas Borba

    Quincas Borba

    3 1988 HD

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  • 1988
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    Quincas Borba

    Quincas Borba

    3 1988 HD

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  • 1963
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    Primeira Chance

    Primeira Chance

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1976
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    As Três Mortes de Solano

    As Três Mortes de Solano

    4.3 1976 HD

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  • 1966
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    As Cariocas

    As Cariocas

    6 1966 HD

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  • 1968
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    Embu

    Embu

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Embu

    Embu

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1978
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    Stop 88

    Stop 88

    6 1978 HD

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  • 1981
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    Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema

    Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema

    5 1981 HD

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