Cinema Novo

Cinema Novo

Cinema Novo

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Nelson Pereira dos Santos

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Glauber Rocha

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Leon Hirszman

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Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

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Carlos Diegues

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Paulo César Saraceni

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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.

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