José Agripino de Paula

Directing

José Agripino de Paula

Born 1937-07-13

José Agripino de Paula was born on 13 July 1937 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Hitler IIIº Mundo (1968), Maria Esther: Danças Na África (1978) and Candomblé no Togo (1972). He died on 4 July 2007 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Sky Over Water poster
NR

in the waters of Arembepe, a woman, sometimes pregnant, sometimes not, a child, and a man, together in an elliptical temporality, harmonize and integrate into the space of nature with an emphatic rhythm. A biographical record of a hippie thesis from one of the popes of tropicalismo.

Sky Over Water

1978

Hitler in the Third World poster
8.3

Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.

Hitler in the Third World

1968

Hitler in the Third World poster
8.3

Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.

Hitler in the Third World

1968

Hitler in the Third World poster
8.3

Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.

Hitler in the Third World

1968

Candomblé in Dahomey poster
NR

A sacrifice ritual in Dahomey [Benin].

Candomblé in Dahomey

1977

Candomblé in Dahomey poster
NR

A sacrifice ritual in Dahomey [Benin].

Candomblé in Dahomey

1977

Candomblé in Togo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Candomblé in Togo

1972

Maria Esther: Danças Na África poster
6.0

This film follows Maria Esther, Jose Agrippino's partner, as she falls into a trance; the film takes place in the day-to-day setting of a room looking out over the beach and over the roofs of a house in North Africa.

Maria Esther: Danças Na África

1978