Abrahão Farc

Acting

Abrahão Farc

Born 1937-07-28 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Abram Jacob Szafarc (São Paulo, July 28, 1937 — São Paulo, September 24, 2012), better known as Abrahão Farc, was a Brazilian actor.

Acting credits

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum poster
2.0

On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, they confiscate the filmed negatives. The paranoid director grumbles: "Are they from the government?". The execution of the film is compromised. Will the director in trouble be able to complete his film?

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum

2014

Father’s Chair poster
7.0

Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His beloved mentor and surrogate father is dying, and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares him for the day when he comes home to discover that his 15-year-old son, Pedro, has disappeared. Theo takes to the road in search of his son. In a journey that leads him throughout Brazil, Theo discovers what really matters to him. Searching for his missing son, Theo finds himself.

Father’s Chair

2012

Act of Violence poster
4.0

Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.

Act of Violence

1981

Nina poster
5.7

After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.

Nina

2004

Bang Bang poster
7.2

An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature.

Bang Bang

1971

Vera poster
6.1

Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a trans man who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with young librarian Clara.

Vera

1986

Drained poster
7.0

A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.

Drained

2006

Oswaldianas poster
9.0

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.

Oswaldianas

1992

The Ripper of Women poster
9.0

Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case.

The Ripper of Women

1978

Beautiful and Corrupted poster
9.0

Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers.

Beautiful and Corrupted

1977

Avocado Seed poster
8.6

A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.

Avocado Seed

1998

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation poster
7.2

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

2006

Cada um Dá o Que Tem poster
4.7

Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.

Cada um Dá o Que Tem

1975

A Grande Viagem poster
NR

Mr. Mario can't distinguish anymore the past from the present. He lives again, inside his own mind, a period of his life when he was a salesman going door to door selling travel guides. However, Mr. Mario has never traveled, but now, an opportunity to see the world arises. Felipe, his grandson, will be his loyal partner on this great journey.

A Grande Viagem

2011

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina poster
5.0

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina

2021

O Mulherengo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Mulherengo

1976

Buccaneer Soul poster
6.4

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

Buccaneer Soul

1993

Excitation poster
6.3

Helena and Renato are a couple who leave the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house and help Helena recover from her nervous breakdowns. But before long, she begins to suffer from increasingly disturbing hallucinations, and the household appliances seem to come to life.

Excitation

1977

No artwork available
7.0

Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments because the network that financed it went under.

Dracula, a Love Story

1980

Cafundó poster
5.5

Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. João de Camargo represents the genesis of religious and cultural syncretism in Brazil.

Cafundó

2005

The Woman of Everyone poster
7.8

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.

The Woman of Everyone

1969

Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit poster
5.2

Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.

Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit

2012

Perigo Negro poster
7.0

Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer player who has his career spoiled by a unscrupulous gambler

Perigo Negro

1992

It's Not All True poster
6.9

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

It's Not All True

1986