Leon Hirszman Movies
- 1963

The Beggars
The Beggars01963HD
A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of...
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- 1971

Faustão
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A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos. Henrique...
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- 1967

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo7.51967HD
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...
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- 1981

They Don't Wear Black Tie
They Don't Wear Black Tie8.21981HD
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião,...
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- 1964

Absolute Majority
Absolute Majority91964HD
The documentary depicts the everyday of illiterate rural workers in Northeast Brazil, living under extreme misery. Although incapable of writing,...
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- 1996

Bahia de Todos os Sambas
Bahia de Todos os Sambas01996HD
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings...
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- 1965

The Deceased
The Deceased7.11965HD
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects...
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- 1964

A Seventy-Four Year-Old Fellow
A Seventy-Four Year-Old Fellow01964HD
Documentary about the history of Jornal do Brasil, founded on April 14, 1891. In 1965, the Jornal do Brasil marked its innovative and active...
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- 2019

Memórias do Grupo Opinião
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Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through...
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- 1978

Rio, Carnaval da Vida
Rio, Carnaval da Vida01978HD
A documentary short on the 1978 Carnaval celebration in Rio de Janeiro, covering many aspects of the celebration's popular culture.
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- 1972

Saint Bernard
Saint Bernard7.61972HD
The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much...
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- 1970

A Vingança dos Doze
A Vingança dos Doze01970HD
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- 1969

Sexta-feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia
Sexta-feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia01969HD
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- 1969

Nelson Cavaquinho
Nelson Cavaquinho91969HD
A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose...
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- 1976

Partido Alto
Partido Alto7.31976HD
The history of Partido-Alto, a musical subgenre derived from Samba, with roots in the batucada of Bahia.
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- 1987

Images of the Unconscious
Images of the Unconscious71987HD
In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the Museum of Images from the Unconscious...
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- 1973

Ecologia
Ecologia01973HD
This film denounces the exploitation of natural resources by certain industries of extraction and transformation. This documentary is considered as...
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- 1962

Five Times Favela
Five Times Favela7.81962HD
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
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- 1973

Megalopolis
Megalopolis6.31973HD
An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
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- 1987

No Reino das Mães - Adelina Gomes
No Reino das Mães - Adelina Gomes01987HD
Adelina Gomes, a poor girl, daughter of peasants, with a primary education and some manual training, shy and submissive to her mother, had never had...
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