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Eduardo Coutinho

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 1980’s, almost at the age of fifty, in a context entirely different to that of Brazil in the 1960’s. 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, Cándido Portinari).


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Born:
May 11, 1933 In São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Movie/TV Credits:
18
First Appeared:
In the movie The Beggars 1963-12-21
Latest Project:
Movie Candango: Memoirs from a Festival 2020-10-22
Known For
Poster of Sete Visitas
Poster of Last Conversations
Poster of Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608
Poster of Câncer
Filmography
Movie Candango: Memoirs from a Festival Self (archive footage) 2020-10-22
Movie Memórias do Grupo Opinião Self (archive footage) 2019-05-15
Movie Last Conversations Self 2015-04-10
Movie Sete Visitas Self 2015-04-11
Movie Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema Self 2015-06-30
Movie Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro Himself 2013-12-05
Movie Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira Self 2011-01-01
Series Destiny River Dr. Ricardo 2010-09-27
Movie Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608 2009-01-01
Movie Capturing Reality Self 2008-11-01
Movie Crítico Self 2008-01-22
Movie Madame Satã Juiz 2002-10-03
Movie Dib Self 1997-01-02
Movie The Memory Thread Himself (Voice) 1991-12-31
Movie Twenty Years Later Himself 1984-12-03
Movie Câncer 1972-01-01
Movie The Girl from Ipanema 1967-05-26
Movie The Beggars 1963-12-21