
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
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Reviramundo
2014
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
NRDocumentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.
Milagrez
2008
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho
2008
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Eu Carrego um Cinema Dentro de Mim
2008
Behind the camera
9.0Short documentary film about the afrobrazilian religion Candomblé.
Espaço Sagrado
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
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Eu Carrego um Sertão Dentro de Mim
1980
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Segunda-Feira
1975
9.0When 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
9.0When 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
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
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
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Deus é um Fogo
1987
6.3In 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
6.3In 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 synopsis available yet.
Casa Grande e Senzala
1974
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho
2008
9.0In 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
O côco do Macalé
1982
NRNo synopsis available yet.
O côco do Macalé
1982
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Semana de Arte Moderna
1972
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
5.0No synopsis available yet.
50 minutos e 23 segundos com Júlio Bressane
2000