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).
Filmography
all 61
Movies 60
Director 30
self 11
Writer 8
TV Shows 1
Producer 1
Screenplay 1
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)
The Method (2019)
A Treat of Coutinho (2019)
Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema (2015)
Sete Visitas (2015)
Last Conversations (2015)
A Família de Elizabeth Teixeira (2014)
Sobreviventes de Galileia (2014)
Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro (2013)
Songs (2011)
Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira (2011)
Um Dia na Vida (2010)
Destiny River (2010)
Moscow (2009)
Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608 (2009)
Capturing Reality (2008)
Crítico (2008)
Playing (2007)
O Fim e o Princípio (2006)
Peões (2004)
Master, a Building in Copacabana (2002)
Madame Satã (2002)
Oswaldo Cruz na Amazônia (2002)
Babilônia 2000 (2001)
Porrada! (2000)
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000)
The Mighty Spirit (1999)
Dib (1997)
Dá pra Segurar! (1997)
Mulheres no Front (1996)
Seis Histórias (1995)
Os Romeiros do Padre Cícero (1994)
Ulysses Cidadão (1993)
The Scavengers (1993)
A Lei e a Vida (1992)
The Memory Thread (1991)
O Jogo da Dívida: Quem Deve a Quem? (1990)
Volta Redonda – Memorial Da Greve (1989)
Santa Marta: Duas Semanas no Morro (1987)
Twenty Years Later (1984)
O Homem de Areia (1982)
Índia, a Filha do Sol (1982)
Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo (1981)
Portinari, O Menino de Brodósqui (1980)
Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja (1979)
Teodorico, o Imperador do Sertão (1978)
O Pistoleiro de Serra Talhada (1977)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)
Superstição (1976)
Lição de Amor (1976)
Seis Dias de Ouricuri (1976)
Os Condenados (1974)
Câncer (1972)
Faustão (1971)
The Man Who Bought the World (1968)
The ABC of Love (1967)
The Girl from Ipanema (1967)
The Deceased (1965)
Os Mendigos (1963)
Cinco Vezes Favela (1962)
Le Telephone (1959)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1933-05-11
Deathday2014-02-02 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceSão Paulo, Brazil
CitizenshipsBrazil
AwardsOrdem do Mérito Cultural, Guggenheim Fellowship
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