Gustavo Dahl

Known for Acting

10/8/1938

Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Biography

Gustavo Dahl (Buenos Aires, October 8, 1938 - Trancoso, June 26, 2011) was a naturalized Brazilian filmmaker, critic and public manager of cinema. He was married to actress Maria Lúcia Dahl.

Known For (10 credits)

8.0

Movie

Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!

2023

23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.

6.7

Movie

Cinema Novo

2016

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

8.5

Movie

Mazzaropi

2013

A documentary on the life and work of Amácio Mazzaropi, a phenomenon of popularity and profitability of Brazilian cinema.

7.5

Movie

House 9

2011

In the 1970s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, composer Jards Macalé and filmmaker Luiz Carlos Lacerda (Bigode) shared a house in Rio de Janeiro - which became a center of convergence for musicians, filmmakers and writers, and where they performed classic films and songs of Brazilian culture.

5.0

Movie

Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha

2007

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage.

5.8

Movie

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

2003

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.

5.3

Movie

Uirá, um Índio em Busca de Deus

1973

After the death of his eldest son, who fell victim to a disease transmitted by white people, the Indian Uirá, chief of the Urubú tribe, decides to set off in search of the god Maíra, creator of the world of men, with whom only brave warriors of the forest are reunited after death. Uirá will also encounter the 'civilisation' of the new Brazil.

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Klaxon

1971

It is the magazine that continues the Modern Art Week of 22.

7.5

Movie

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

1967

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.

5.7

Movie

The Big City

1966

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, later, the company of Inácio.