Ugo Giorgetti

Directing

Ugo Giorgetti

Born 1942-06-01 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Ugo César Giorgetti (born on june 1st, 1942, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian filmmaker. He works as scriptwriter and director of advertising films since 1966, initially at the Alcântara Machado, C & N, Denison and Proeme agencies, later for the companies Cia. de Cinema, Frame and Espiral. In the early 1970s he made two short films about aspects of the city of São Paulo. His first feature, Quebrando a Cara, started in 1977 but released only in 1986, is a 16 mm documentary about the career and fights of boxer Éder Jofre. Giorgetti's first feature film, "Jogo Duro," tells the story of a group of marginalized people who dispute the occupation of a house in an upscale neighborhood of São Paulo. His next film "Festa" received the award for Best Film at the 1989 Gramado Festival. In 2004, the Aplauso Cinema Brasil Collection, from the Official Press of the State of São Paulo, published the volume "Ugo Giorgetti - o sonho intacto", by Rosane Pavam. Since 2006, Giorgetti has signed a weekly column on football in the Sunday edition of the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

O Príncipe poster
6.7

After 20 years of exile in Paris, Gustavo returns to his native city São Paulo. Back home, he encounters a place which no longer exists. His old friends and family members have changed, almost beyond recognition. He tries to recapture the past, and make some sense of his life, that of his friends and family, and the present state of his native country.

O Príncipe

2002

O Príncipe poster
6.7

After 20 years of exile in Paris, Gustavo returns to his native city São Paulo. Back home, he encounters a place which no longer exists. His old friends and family members have changed, almost beyond recognition. He tries to recapture the past, and make some sense of his life, that of his friends and family, and the present state of his native country.

O Príncipe

2002

Uma outra cidade poster
NR

Sao Paulo revisited by brazilian poets that were aligned with the beatnik generation.

Uma outra cidade

2000

Uma outra cidade poster
NR

Sao Paulo revisited by brazilian poets that were aligned with the beatnik generation.

Uma outra cidade

2000

Paredes Nuas poster
NR

A successful businessman is arrested on suspicion of committing financial crimes. In the sitting room of his house, four characters – the driver, the nanny, the lawyer and the wife – discuss how and why the businessman was arrested and, consequently, try to understand their own lives.

Paredes Nuas

2009

Paredes Nuas poster
NR

A successful businessman is arrested on suspicion of committing financial crimes. In the sitting room of his house, four characters – the driver, the nanny, the lawyer and the wife – discuss how and why the businessman was arrested and, consequently, try to understand their own lives.

Paredes Nuas

2009

Solo poster
NR

A middle-aged, wealthy man who lives in an upscale neighborhood in São Paulo, goes to put on his shoes and finds that his foot is no longer the same – it has changed for the worse. This gesture is the trigger for a reflection on life, the passage of time and the difficulty in understanding the present day.

Solo

2009

Solo poster
NR

A middle-aged, wealthy man who lives in an upscale neighborhood in São Paulo, goes to put on his shoes and finds that his foot is no longer the same – it has changed for the worse. This gesture is the trigger for a reflection on life, the passage of time and the difficulty in understanding the present day.

Solo

2009

Party poster
6.6

A harmonicist, a pool player, and his old assistant get invited as entertainers at a fancy dinner party but have to wait in the lobby for what seems like forever. They witness all sorts of absurdities as the party goes on and guests loosen up.

Party

1989

Party poster
6.6

A harmonicist, a pool player, and his old assistant get invited as entertainers at a fancy dinner party but have to wait in the lobby for what seems like forever. They witness all sorts of absurdities as the party goes on and guests loosen up.

Party

1989

Rua São Bento, 405 - Prédio Martinelli poster
5.0

The film tells the story of the first skyscraper of São Paulo, the Martinelli building, and registers testimonials of its last residents who had to move after São Paulos’ municipality interdiction of the building. It shows the variety of human types and commercial establishments that used to exist inside the traditional building.

Rua São Bento, 405 - Prédio Martinelli

1976

Pizza poster
5.7

A source of inspiration for the cinematography of Ugo Giorgetti, São Paulo is once again the backdrop to this documentary in which the theme is the specialty of the city's culinary.

Pizza

2005

Pizza poster
5.7

A source of inspiration for the cinematography of Ugo Giorgetti, São Paulo is once again the backdrop to this documentary in which the theme is the specialty of the city's culinary.

Pizza

2005

Campos Elíseos poster
NR

The history of São Paulo's first residential district.

Campos Elíseos

1973

Campos Elíseos poster
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The history of São Paulo's first residential district.

Campos Elíseos

1973

Jogo Duro poster
4.0

A former boxer is hired to take care of an empty house in the Pacaembu neighborhood in São Paulo. The property is for sale and its function is received when purchased. On the first night on the job, he discovers that a woman and a daughter are living clandestinely in one of the mansion's rooms.

Jogo Duro

1986

Jogo Duro poster
4.0

A former boxer is hired to take care of an empty house in the Pacaembu neighborhood in São Paulo. The property is for sale and its function is received when purchased. On the first night on the job, he discovers that a woman and a daughter are living clandestinely in one of the mansion's rooms.

Jogo Duro

1986

Jogo Duro poster
4.0

A former boxer is hired to take care of an empty house in the Pacaembu neighborhood in São Paulo. The property is for sale and its function is received when purchased. On the first night on the job, he discovers that a woman and a daughter are living clandestinely in one of the mansion's rooms.

Jogo Duro

1986

Paul Singer, Uma Utopia Militante poster
5.0

Professor Singer can be assessed as an enlightenment: he was also an educator, even (or above all) when he made politics. A major character in the intellectual life of São Paulo in the last seventy years, he narrates his trajectory, from his arrival in Brazil in 1940, escaping the Second World War, in 2016, in the leadership of solidarity economy movements. The film tries to show the beauty of a man thinking.

Paul Singer, Uma Utopia Militante

2021

Cara ou Coroa poster
5.0

During the Brazilian military dictatorship in the seventies, two brothers working on a play will risk their lives to help the resistance.

Cara ou Coroa

2012

On the Fringes of São Paulo: Homeless poster
8.0

Documentary about homeless people in São Paulo, Brazil (more than 9000!), discussing themes such as social exclusion, unemployment, alcohol abuse, madness and religiosity.

On the Fringes of São Paulo: Homeless

2004

A Cidade Imaginária poster
NR

The movie shows a group of italian imigrants in a ship going to São Paulo in the end of the century XIX. They tell about their fears and expectatives in the future new life.

A Cidade Imaginária

2026

A Cidade Imaginária poster
NR

The movie shows a group of italian imigrants in a ship going to São Paulo in the end of the century XIX. They tell about their fears and expectatives in the future new life.

A Cidade Imaginária

2026

A Cidade Imaginária poster
NR

The movie shows a group of italian imigrants in a ship going to São Paulo in the end of the century XIX. They tell about their fears and expectatives in the future new life.

A Cidade Imaginária

2026