Directing
Geraldo Sarno
Born — Died
1938-03-06 — 2022-02-22
Place of birth
Poções, Bahia, Brazil
Known for
Directing
Credits
47 titles
Geraldo Sarno (6 March 1938 – 22 February 2022) was a Brazilian documentarist, screenwriter and film director. Born in Poções, after studying law at the Universidad del Salvador Sarno moved to São Paulo where he became an assistant of Thomaz Farkas. He made his directorial debut in 1965 with the Farkas-produced Viramundo, about the internal migration in north-east Brazil, which was one of the major themes in his documentary career. Among Sarno's best known works was the critically acclaimed film Colonel Delmiro Gouveia (1978), a mix between documentary and fiction which has been described as "the last really significant title of the Cinema Novo movement". In 2008, he won the award for best…
Known for
9.1When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams.
Sertânia
2020
8.6Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Paulo in a cycle repeated every day. Viramundo's aim was to question why the military coup d'état in Brazil happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society.
Viramundo
1965
6.0A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Paulo Caldas, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, David Neves, Julio Bressane, Ana Carolina and Carlos Reichenbach.
A Linguagem do Cinema
2001
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Segunda-Feira
1975
Documentary about the reminiscence of Balzac's works, spiritually and scientifically the documentary shows the strenght of this important work of French literature through the years.
Balzac's Last Novel
2011
NRThe work and life of the important Brazilian filmmaker Geraldo Sarno are intimately revealed during the filming of the series "Sertão de Dentro" and the feature film "Sertânia".
Dois Sertões
2023
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Reviramundo
2014
6.7A 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.
Cinema Novo
2016
2000s · 4 titles
NRDocumentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.
Milagrez
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Eu Carrego um Cinema Dentro de Mim
2008
2.0The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."
Depois do Transe
2006
Behind the camera
9.1When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams.
Sertânia
2020
9.1When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams.
Sertânia
2020
8.6Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Paulo in a cycle repeated every day. Viramundo's aim was to question why the military coup d'état in Brazil happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society.
Viramundo
1965
8.6Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Paulo in a cycle repeated every day. Viramundo's aim was to question why the military coup d'état in Brazil happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society.
Viramundo
1965
6.0A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Paulo Caldas, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, David Neves, Julio Bressane, Ana Carolina and Carlos Reichenbach.
A Linguagem do Cinema
2001
6.0A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Paulo Caldas, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, David Neves, Julio Bressane, Ana Carolina and Carlos Reichenbach.
A Linguagem do Cinema
2001
6.0A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Paulo Caldas, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, David Neves, Julio Bressane, Ana Carolina and Carlos Reichenbach.
A Linguagem do Cinema
2001
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Segunda-Feira
1975
Documentary about the reminiscence of Balzac's works, spiritually and scientifically the documentary shows the strenght of this important work of French literature through the years.
Balzac's Last Novel
2011
Documentary about the reminiscence of Balzac's works, spiritually and scientifically the documentary shows the strenght of this important work of French literature through the years.
Balzac's Last Novel
2011
NRFrom the clay used to make tiles or clay clay, an image of Lampião, the king of Cangaço, begins to emerge through the work of ceramicist Manuel Vitalino dos Santos. According to the artist, son of Mestre Vitalino, the most famous clay artisan in the Northeast, it would be preferable to abandon the art rather than having to change his artisanal production method. Tradition and consumption are discussed when the art arrives to be sold at the Caruaru Fair in Pernambuco. The soundtrack is provided by the voice of singer Severino Pinto.
Vitalino/Lampião
1969
6.7In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled with the chance of overtaking the place.
Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring
1967
6.2In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
1979
6.2In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
1979
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Deus é um Fogo
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho
2008
No synopsis available yet.
Casa Grande e Senzala
1974
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Auto de Vitória
1966
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Auto de Vitória
1966
NRNo synopsis available yet.
O côco do Macalé
1982
NRNo synopsis available yet.
O côco do Macalé
1982
9.0Short documentary film about the afrobrazilian religion Candomblé.
Espaço Sagrado
1975
8.0A Brazilian film, inspired by local publications known as literatura de cordel, that chronicled political, social and cultural events, as well as containing folk tales.
Roda & Outras Estórias
1965
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Eu Carrego um Sertão Dentro de Mim
1980
8.0A documentary on the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé and its rites.
Iaô: A iniciação num terreiro Gege Nagô
1976
8.0A documentary on the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé and its rites.
Iaô: A iniciação num terreiro Gege Nagô
1976
8.0A documentary on the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé and its rites.
Iaô: A iniciação num terreiro Gege Nagô
1976
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mídia, mentiras e democracia: zona de fronteira
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mídia, mentiras e democracia: zona de fronteira
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Semana de Arte Moderna
1972
NRThe process of production of rapadura in the Brazilian state of Ceará.
O Engenho
1970
NRThe process of production of rapadura in the Brazilian state of Ceará.
O Engenho
1970
5.0Documentary about the film director Ana Carolina.
Ana Carolina no País do Cinema
2001
8.5The Viscount of Sabugosa is locked in the library writing an encyclopedia about the characters in children's fables. Dona Benta receives a letter from little Thumb, written on a rose petal, in which he, realizing that the inhabitants of the world of fables are forgotten in the books on the shelves, requests that everyone live in Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. Emília and the children love the idea, and Dona Benta says yes. They move
O Picapau Amarelo
1973
8.5The Viscount of Sabugosa is locked in the library writing an encyclopedia about the characters in children's fables. Dona Benta receives a letter from little Thumb, written on a rose petal, in which he, realizing that the inhabitants of the world of fables are forgotten in the books on the shelves, requests that everyone live in Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. Emília and the children love the idea, and Dona Benta says yes. They move
O Picapau Amarelo
1973
9.0The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region.
Viva Cariri
1970
9.0The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region.
Viva Cariri
1970
10.0No synopsis available yet.
A Terra Queima
1984
10.0No synopsis available yet.
A Terra Queima
1984