Geraldo Sarno

Directing

Geraldo Sarno

Born 1938-03-06 · Poções, Bahia, Brazil

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 direction at the Brasília Film Festival for the film Tudo Isto Me Parece Um Sonho, while in 2010 his film O Último Romance de Balzac was awarded the Special Jury Award at the Gramado Film Festival.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Espaço Sagrado poster
9.0

Short documentary film about the afrobrazilian religion Candomblé.

Espaço Sagrado

1975

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

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

Eu Carrego um Sertão Dentro de Mim poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eu Carrego um Sertão Dentro de Mim

1980

Segunda-Feira poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Segunda-Feira

1975

Sertânia poster
9.0

When 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

Sertânia poster
9.0

When 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

Vitalino/Lampião poster
NR

From 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

Viramundo poster
8.6

Viramundo 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

Viramundo poster
8.6

Viramundo 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

Roda & Outras Estórias poster
8.0

A 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

Deus é um Fogo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Deus é um Fogo

1987

Colonel Delmiro Gouveia poster
6.3

In 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

Colonel Delmiro Gouveia poster
6.3

In 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

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Casa Grande e Senzala

1974

Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho

2008

Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho

2008

True Brazil poster
9.0

In the late 1960s, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a collection of documentaries called "Brasil Verdade" ("True Brazil"), after the Military Coup d'État took place in Brazil, which happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society. The five short films are directly related to this fact and its consequences to the country.

True Brazil

1968

O côco do Macalé poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O côco do Macalé

1982

O côco do Macalé poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O côco do Macalé

1982

Semana de Arte Moderna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Semana de Arte Moderna

1972

Viva Cariri poster
9.0

The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region.

Viva Cariri

1970

Viva Cariri poster
9.0

The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region.

Viva Cariri

1970

50 minutos e 23 segundos com Júlio Bressane poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

50 minutos e 23 segundos com Júlio Bressane

2000