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Eduardo Coutinho‌

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Eduardo Coutinho

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Eduardo Coutinho

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1933-05-11

Popularity

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Biography

Eduardo Coutinho (1933-2014) enjoyed an extraordinary career in the Brazilian film industry, mainly as a documentarist. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a contemporary of many Cinema Novo filmmakers, friend and colleague of several of them, but he only became a director at the beginning of the 1980s, almost at the age of fifty, in a context entirely different from that of Brazil in the 1960s. He also studied law, theatre and journalism, in which he worked for many years. He is the author of articles on the Brazilian film industry published in newspapers and magazines. His first contact with the film world was at a seminar in 1954, but from then until 1957 he was the editor of Visão magazine and later decided to take up film studies at the prestigious Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC) in Paris. He worked on the script or in the production of major films directed by Leon Hirzsman (A Falecida, Garota de Ipanema), Eduardo Escorel (Lição de Amor), Bruno Barreto (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) and Zelito Viana (Os Condenados). In 1975, Coutinho joined the Globo Repórter team, where he remained for nine years, and, according to its director, it was an important learning curve that convinced him to move into documentary films. In spite of censorship, the team (made up of Paulo Gil Soares, João Batista de Andrade, Jorge Bodansky, and Oswaldo Caldeira, among others) managed to go in-depth into a number of topics. Coutinho’s documentaries from this period include Seis Dias em Ouricuri (on the drought and the hard labour in the outback), O Pistoleiro de Serra Talhada (on banditry in the north-east), O Imperador do Sertão (on Colonel Teodorico Bezerra) and O Menino de Brodósqui (on the painter, Cândido Portinari).

Movie Credits

Babilônia 2000

Babilônia 2000‌
star7.0
calendar 2001

Twenty Years Later

Twenty Years Later‌
star8.3
calendar 1984

The Memory Thread

The Memory Thread‌
star6.9
calendar 1991

Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro

Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro‌
star7.0
calendar 2013

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival‌
star5.0
calendar 2020

Câncer

Câncer‌
star8.0
calendar 1972

Last Conversations

Last Conversations‌
star7.5
calendar 2015

Madame Satã

Madame Satã‌
star6.9
calendar 2002

The Mighty Spirit

The Mighty Spirit‌
star6.7
calendar 1999

Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema

Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema‌
star0.0
calendar 2015

Memórias do Grupo Opinião

Memórias do Grupo Opinião‌
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calendar 2019

1964: 40 Years After

1964: 40 Years After‌
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calendar 2004

The Girl from Ipanema

The Girl from Ipanema‌
star6.2
calendar 1967

The Beggars

The Beggars‌
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calendar 1963

The Method

The Method‌
star5.0
calendar 2019

Movie Theaters of Rio

Movie Theaters of Rio‌
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calendar 2001

Dib

Dib‌
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calendar 1997

Sete Visitas

Sete Visitas‌
star10.0
calendar 2015

Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608

Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608‌
star8.0
calendar 2009

Capturing Reality

Capturing Reality‌
star6.1
calendar 2008

Crítico

Crítico‌
star7.9
calendar 2008

Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira

Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira‌
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calendar 2011

A Treat of Coutinho

A Treat of Coutinho‌
star6.4
calendar 2019

Tv Credits

Destiny River

Destiny River‌
star6.5
calendar 2010