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Eduardo Coutinho

1933-05-11 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Image of Eduardo Coutinho

Biografia

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).

Películas

Candango: Memórias do Festival Self (archive footage) 2020-10-22
Banquete Coutinho Self 2019-06-05
Memórias do Grupo Opinião Self (archive footage) 2019-05-15
Sete Visitas Self 2015-04-11
Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema Self 2015-06-30
Últimas Conversas 2015-04-10
Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro Himself 2013-12-05
Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira Self 2011-01-01
Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608 2009-01-01
Crítico Self 2008-01-28
Capturing Reality Self 2008-11-01
1964: 40 Anos Depois 2004-01-01
Madame Satã Juiz 2002-10-03
Babilônia 2000 Self 2001-11-22
Santo Forte Self (Interviewer) 1999-08-09
Dib Self 1997-01-02
O Fio da Memória Himself (Voice) 1991-12-31
Cabra Marcado Para Morrer Himself 1984-12-03
Câncer 1972-01-01
Garôta de Ipanema 1967-05-26
Os Mendigos 1963-12-21