Werner Schünemann

Acting

Werner Schünemann

Born

1959-02-21 (67)

Place of birth

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

Werner Eduardo Schünemann (born February 21, 1959) is a Brazilian actor, director and screenwriter.

Known for

Side by Side poster
9.1

Winner of the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela, "Side by Side" focuses on two women of different origins and social classes. The brave Isabel, daughter of a former slave and in love with the capoeira player Zé Maria; and Laura, descendant from a wealthy family and destined to an undesired marriage to Edgar. In addition to an unshakable friendship, the two share the same purpose in life: the conquest of freedom in the conservative society of Rio de Janeiro of the early 20th century.

Side by Side

2012

Começar de Novo poster
6.7

Children of arch-enemy families in the city of Ouro Negro and separated as teenagers, Miguel and Letícia meet again 30 years later, without knowing who the other is.

Começar de Novo

2004

Kubanacan poster
7.0

The story begins in 1951 in Kubanacan, a small Caribbean island country known as a"banana republic", both for its prime export and its economic problems. After the death of the current president, General Carlos Camacho imposes a coup d'état and establishes a dictatorial regime. In addition, the new ruler marries the wife of her predecessor, Mercedes, first lady loved by the people for her help to the poor and with whom she had an affair for years. In the village of Santiago, a mysterious man falls from the sky during a storm with a chest shot, being saved by the fishermen and cared for by Marisol. Without memory, Esteban falls in love with the girl and disputes his heart with her husband, Enrico, who leaves and lets his ex-wife live with the new love, who takes over her two children. Seven years later, in 1958, Marisol meets Camacho, who convinces her to leave and live as his mistress, claiming she would never get out of poverty in the village.

Kubanacan

2003

Passione poster
6.8

An ambitious young woman with a traumatizing past targets an Italian man, the distant son of a wealthy Brazilian family.

Passione

2010

Ambitious Women poster
5.9

In Ambitious Women, all levels of ambition are revealed in a plot full of greed, revenge and struggle for power, through the conflicts of three strong women with very different personalities.

Ambitious Women

2015

A Time To Love poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

A Time To Love

2017

Film credits

2020s · 13 titles

Proof of Love poster
7.0

Alicia is a rich young woman who loves to party, travel and is very close to her grandfather. The protagonist runs away from responsibilities and tries to make the most of the benefits of being the heir to an immense estate. When her grandfather dies, she discovers that she has been excluded from the will and will only be able to get her hands on the family business and money when she is mature enough and married.

Proof of Love

2022

Domingo Sem Deus poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Domingo Sem Deus

2026

Em nome do Pai poster
NR

About losses, abandonment of children, women, dignity, honor and ethics.

Em nome do Pai

2022

Nothing Happens By Chance poster
6.7

When Marina returns from a trip with five million reais in her account, she just wants to move forward without looking back and forgetting what she did to get that amount. However, a series of constant encounters between her, Maria Eugênia, Henrique and the couple's son cannot be just a coincidence.

Nothing Happens By Chance

2022

De volta à Bahia poster
NR

A video of a young surfer's rescue goes viral on the internet, revealing the unexpected encounter between Maya (Bárbara França) and Pedro (Lucca Picon), two promising surfing talents. Introduced by PH (Felipe Roque), a surfing idol, they are surprised to discover they are already connected by the rescue that went viral—and that both are trained by the same mentor. While preparing for a crucial championship in Salvador, they face family conflicts and experience a romance.

De volta à Bahia

2026

Reconhecer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Reconhecer

2025

Hunting Season poster
NR

In 2022, police officer Rubens Filho abandons his uniform and roams the gay ghettos of Porto Alegre while a serial killer, active in the 1990s, returns to attack, feeling legitimized by hate speech that returns to the public sphere. As the number of victims grows, Rubens must dive deep into the reality of this community. This process forces him to confront his own biases, fears, and internal conflicts while racing against a cruel and invisible enemy.

Hunting Season

2026

8 Segundos: O Desafio poster
NR

Helena is the daughter of rancher Sinval and the sister of João Donato, a renowned international rodeo champion. Her dream is to become a top female rodeo rider, despite her father’s objections, so she divides her time between secret riding practice and her work as a doctor in Barretos.

8 Segundos: O Desafio

2026

Primavera poster
6.0

Moments before a father's death, all of his family memories are transferred to his son through a dream, from the first ancestor, an Englishman living at the end of the 18th century, to his Brazilian heirs, the protagonists of this story.

Primavera

2022

Algo de Errado Não Está Certo poster
8.8

Detectives Walter Biombo and Tony Dodói are investigating the mysterious killer of the Uber driver, Deoclécio Bacia, a victim of the imitator syndrome (every day he wakes up imitating a different personality). However, what apparently appeared to be a banal crime of passionate suicide in self-defense, begins to complicate when it becomes evident that it is a conspiracy of the aliens of the past in the perfect past of Narnia.

Algo de Errado Não Está Certo

2020

Stand-Up - My Life Is A Joke poster
7.0

A failed pseudo-comedian discovers that another guy is making a name for himself with his original joke. He needs to recover what is his, even if he has to kill his tormentor to do so.

Stand-Up - My Life Is A Joke

2023

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Anita – A Guerreira de Dois Mundos

2024

Moscow - Onde o Inesperado Sempre Acontece poster
7.0

Val is a woman with a strong personality, living in a turbulent city plagued by gangs and violence. "Moscow" takes place in a single night, in a jazz club in São Paulo.

Moscow - Onde o Inesperado Sempre Acontece

2021

2010s · 7 titles

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey poster
7.2

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey

2010

Bio poster
5.2

The film tells the story of a man who was born in 1959 and died in 2070, told by people who knew him and somehow contributed to his trajectory.

Bio

2017

Boys Soccer Club poster
6.9

A 12 year old boy dreams of becoming a goalkeeper for the national Brazilian soccer team, but first he has to overcome his own fears to convince his team boys club and his father who is against competition.

Boys Soccer Club

2014

O Maníaco do Facebook poster
5.0

Chitão is a man who ended up getting too much into the culture of social networks. So much so that, after being arrested for a bizarre psychotic break that made him nudge people on the street, Chitão was instructed to look for a psychologist to help him get rid of his Facebook addiction. However, things do not go as expected and Chitão begins to take the ideas of the social network and computers into real life.

O Maníaco do Facebook

2016

The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga poster
7.7

Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a trap that nearly kills him. Born again, Matraga resorts to faith and hard work in the pursuit of redemption. Years later, he arrives at the village reigned by the hinterland's ruler and his thugs. This new friendship will challenge his destiny. Inside Matraga, the Saint and the Warrior will duel until his time comes.

The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga

2011

O Último Virgem poster
4.8

Dudu is a shy boy who, in his senior year of high school, is still a virgin. This situation makes him the constant target of jokes from his inseparable friends. One day, at the end of the school year, he is invited by the gorgeous Professor Deborah to take extra lessons at her house. The situation soon causes Dudu and his friends to believe that she is flirting on the boy, who cares more than never about his sexual inexperience.

O Último Virgem

2016

Vai Que Cola: O Filme poster
6.2

Valdomiro gets involved in yet another scheme, this time involving the same people that tricked him into losing everything - and he brings everyone from Ms. Jô's hostel along.

Vai Que Cola: O Filme

2015

2000s · 13 titles

Alma Mater poster
5.7

34-year-old Pamela is a small and shy woman. She works at the cash register of a supermarket. She attends a religious temple led by a Brazilian minister. She periodically visits her autistic mother. She is an anonymous character, leading a meaningless life. Suddenly, a miracle occurs. Messages of a marvelous destiny start to reach Pamela in unusual ways: a client, a gentle and charismatic transvestite, her own mother, dreams, bar codes, real and imaginary signals. The Savior of the Next Millennium is apparently on his way and everything indicates that she, being a virgin, is carrying him on her entrails. Impelled to face herself, Pamela undertakes an inner voyage. A paradoxical voyage: the more mystic she grows to be, the more human she becomes.

Alma Mater

2004

Olga poster
7.2

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.

Olga

2004

Tolerância poster
5.2

Julius is a photographer working as a men's magazine photo retoucher. His wife, Marcia, is a criminal lawyer who defends Teodoro, a squatter accused of murder. For years they had a quiet wedlock. However, Marcia gets involved with her client, and as revenge, Julius sleeps with Ana Maria, a friend of their daughter Guida. From this episode on, their lives are no longer the same.

Tolerância

2000

O Gritador poster
NR

Three friends go to camp in an isolated place, where they listen to stories from two strange mountain guides about a screaming ghost.

O Gritador

2006

Almost Brothers poster
5.9

The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.

Almost Brothers

2004

Netto Perde Sua Alma poster
7.3

The story of a man who invented a country.

Netto Perde Sua Alma

2002

A Paixão de Jacobina poster
4.2

In the mid-1870s, Jacobina, daughter of German immigrants, became leader of a sect that believed in healing the body by cleansing the soul. After having a divine vision and speaking to Jesus, she changes her appearance and manners, disturbing the conservative population of the place. After the death of opponents of her sect, local authorities decide to take action against her and her followers.

A Paixão de Jacobina

2002

The Knight Didi and the Princess Lili poster
4.2

This adventure movie features Didi as King's Lindolfo groom and valet, a faithful servant to the royal family. After the King's death, his evil brother Jafar tries to seize the throne. He plots for his son Galante to marry young princess Lili, but Didi won't let him get away so easily with his plans. The clumsy valet fights bravely to keep the kingdom safe from Jafar, and he's eager to do anything to help princess Lili and her childhood sweetheart Juan, who is a commoner, to be together.

The Knight Didi and the Princess Lili

2006

Netto e o Domador de Cavalos poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Netto e o Domador de Cavalos

2008

The Warrior Didi and the Ninja Lili poster
4.4

No synopsis available yet.

The Warrior Didi and the Ninja Lili

2008

Didi Wanna Be a Kid poster
4.2

Didi works at a traditional candy factory, which faces serious problems with the competition of a big company, whose products are full of artifical and dangerous flavors and colorants. He tries to warn the kids of the danger, but they don't believe him, and he prays to his saints of devotion, St. Cosmas and St. Damian, for a solution. Some other day, he gives shelter to two poor men who, in return, give him some magical candies. After eating them, he turns into a kid and tries again to talk to the other children, who now take him seriously, since he has become one of them.

Didi Wanna Be a Kid

2004

Confiscated Goods poster
5.6

Betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After one of his lovers commits suicide, he has his illegitimate son kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. The Senator chooses another former lover to take care of his son, and the two of them become involved beyond that of a mother son relationship.

Confiscated Goods

2005

Tepê poster
10.0

An atheist gets into a taxi whose driver is a believer who will try to convince him that God exists, but it was not quite as he had imagined.

Tepê

2000

1990s · 5 titles

O Pulso poster
9.0

In a morgue, the corpse of a young man that suddenly died on the streets probably due to a heart attack will be examined by the coroner Elizabeth (Letícia Spiller). She questions with her colleague the death of a person so young and handsome, but the brain of the dead man somehow is working and he falls in love for her. Meanwhile, a deranged man invades the morgue and threatens Elizabeth with a gun, with the witness of the dead man, who is immobilized (since he is dead) and unable to help her.

O Pulso

1997

3 Minutes poster
7.8

Three minutes. The time to leave a message. To pass the baton and run 1600 meters. To cook an egg. The time to make a decision that can change your life.

3 Minutes

1999

O Zeppelin Passou por Aqui poster
7.0

Porto Alegre anxiously awaits the passage of the German airship towards Montevideo. Júlio, an accountant, finds a way not to take his wife Mariana, a seamstress, who stays at home, sad. But while Júlio and his lover Leda see very little of Zeppelin, Mariana, at home, indulges in an overwhelming passion.

O Zeppelin Passou por Aqui

1993

O Velho do Saco poster
10.0

Ricardo is 10 years old, lives in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and has nightmares about Velho do Saco, sort of a Brazilian bogeyman, “who takes out the eyes of misbehaving children”. It is not easy to distinguish truths and lies when the loss of innocence is confused with the loss of sight.

O Velho do Saco

1999

Deus Ex-Machina poster
8.0

Dolores, a beautiful, wealthy and paralyzed woman, hires detective Otávio to follow her husband Inácio and find out what his real relationship is with a young woman named Alice. A story of lies, false leads and obscure motivations, in which four characters of dubious morals try to appear honest to each other.

Deus Ex-Machina

1995

1980s · 4 titles

Series credits

Side by Side poster
9.1

Winner of the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela, "Side by Side" focuses on two women of different origins and social classes. The brave Isabel, daughter of a former slave and in love with the capoeira player Zé Maria; and Laura, descendant from a wealthy family and destined to an undesired marriage to Edgar. In addition to an unshakable friendship, the two share the same purpose in life: the conquest of freedom in the conservative society of Rio de Janeiro of the early 20th century.

Side by Side

2012

Começar de Novo poster
6.7

Children of arch-enemy families in the city of Ouro Negro and separated as teenagers, Miguel and Letícia meet again 30 years later, without knowing who the other is.

Começar de Novo

2004

Kubanacan poster
7.0

The story begins in 1951 in Kubanacan, a small Caribbean island country known as a"banana republic", both for its prime export and its economic problems. After the death of the current president, General Carlos Camacho imposes a coup d'état and establishes a dictatorial regime. In addition, the new ruler marries the wife of her predecessor, Mercedes, first lady loved by the people for her help to the poor and with whom she had an affair for years. In the village of Santiago, a mysterious man falls from the sky during a storm with a chest shot, being saved by the fishermen and cared for by Marisol. Without memory, Esteban falls in love with the girl and disputes his heart with her husband, Enrico, who leaves and lets his ex-wife live with the new love, who takes over her two children. Seven years later, in 1958, Marisol meets Camacho, who convinces her to leave and live as his mistress, claiming she would never get out of poverty in the village.

Kubanacan

2003

Passione poster
6.8

An ambitious young woman with a traumatizing past targets an Italian man, the distant son of a wealthy Brazilian family.

Passione

2010

Ambitious Women poster
5.9

In Ambitious Women, all levels of ambition are revealed in a plot full of greed, revenge and struggle for power, through the conflicts of three strong women with very different personalities.

Ambitious Women

2015

A Time To Love poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

A Time To Love

2017

Pure Beauty poster
7.9

Beleza Pura is a Brazilian soap opera produced and broadcast by Rede Globo from February, 18 to September 12, 2007, with a total of 179 chapters. It replaced Sete Pecados, by Walcyr Carrasco at the 19h timeslot. It was written by the newcomer Andrea Maltarolli and co-written by Emanoel Jacobina, Ricardo Hoffstetter, Daisy Chaves, Flávia Bessone, and João Brandão, with text supervision by Silvio de Abreu, and general direction by Rogério Gomes.

Pure Beauty

2008

Eterna Magia poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Eterna Magia

2007

Madam Beja poster
7.1

In imperial Brazil, a young woman stripped of her reputation is forced into exile from polite society. Recasting herself as Madam Beja, she builds an elite pleasure house that becomes a hub of political intrigue, economic power, and forbidden desire, using charm, intelligence, and ruthless strategy to bend the same men and institutions that once destroyed her.

Madam Beja

2026

Burning Hearts poster
7.9

Tancinha is a charming fruit seller known for her hot temper who gets torn between an explosive relationship with passionate truck driver Apolo, her neighbour and childhood sweetheart, and an irresistible attraction for Beto, a lady-killer who will not take no for an answer. The girl ends up being caught up in a family feud over the disappearance of her father whom she believed to be dead. Tancinha will leave a path of turmoil along her way to unveil this mystery.

Burning Hearts

2016

Once We Were Six poster
8.0

The plot tells the history and daily life of the Lemos Family between the 1920s and 1940s. Júlio works in a fabric store and has the ambition of getting rich to offer his family a good life. His wife, Lola, does everything she can to keep her family together, because she believes that this way they can move on.

Once We Were Six

2019

Seven Women poster
8.7

When the men go to war, the women also battle. This tale takes place in the XIX century, during a terrible civil war. Italy’s revolutionary leader Garibaldi must choose between two loves: a sweet aristocratic lady or a brave woman who leaves her husband to accompany him into battle. This super-production recounts the saga of women who do not go to war but must bear pain, solitude and new passions while their husbands and fathers fight the battles.

Seven Women

2003

Amazônia: De Galvez a Chico Mendes poster
8.5

The miniseries chronicles the history of Acre, the last region to be annexed into Brazilian territory. For many years, the state—formerly part of Bolivia—attracted people from Brazil's Northeast and from abroad who left their hometowns in search of a better life through latex extraction. The relentless pursuit of new extraction sites took a toll on the natural environment, which was increasingly exploited in a predatory manner, and brought poverty to the region. The miniseries depicts this entire process, spanning a century, through three central figures: Galvez, Plácido de Castro, and Chico Mendes.

Amazônia: De Galvez a Chico Mendes

2007

The Brazilians poster
8.3

After the breakthrough success of 'The Cariocas', the spin-off 'The Brazilians - The Women' embraces all the diversity of Brazil and its women. Powerful, fragile, funny, protective, beautiful, talented, insightful, and especially unique; they all have a certain charm. No matter what their birthplace, age, lifestyle or preference, these remarkable women have one thing in common: they are Brazilian. Brilliantly witty and entertaining, every independent episode provides an exclusive look at the life experiences of the women who inspire everyone.

The Brazilians

2012

A Bênção poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Bênção

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Ira do Herdeiro

2027

Behind the camera

O Pulso poster
9.0

In a morgue, the corpse of a young man that suddenly died on the streets probably due to a heart attack will be examined by the coroner Elizabeth (Letícia Spiller). She questions with her colleague the death of a person so young and handsome, but the brain of the dead man somehow is working and he falls in love for her. Meanwhile, a deranged man invades the morgue and threatens Elizabeth with a gun, with the witness of the dead man, who is immobilized (since he is dead) and unable to help her.

O Pulso

1997

O Mentiroso poster
8.0

The friendship between four men is at stake when one of them is invited to work in another city. But the other three decide to go along.

O Mentiroso

1988

O Mentiroso poster
8.0

The friendship between four men is at stake when one of them is invited to work in another city. But the other three decide to go along.

O Mentiroso

1988

O Futuro da Terra poster
NR

In the 30 de Maio settlement, in Charqueadas, Rio Grande do Sul, 40 families settled in 1990 show that it is possible to resist, produce and live collectively from the land. Just one example of how generous the Brazilian land can be when men and women work with everyone's future in mind.

O Futuro da Terra

1997

O Futuro da Terra poster
NR

In the 30 de Maio settlement, in Charqueadas, Rio Grande do Sul, 40 families settled in 1990 show that it is possible to resist, produce and live collectively from the land. Just one example of how generous the Brazilian land can be when men and women work with everyone's future in mind.

O Futuro da Terra

1997

Where the Poets Die First poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Where the Poets Die First

2001

Me Beija poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Me Beija

1984

Me Beija poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Me Beija

1984

Coisa na Roda poster
9.0

Four students live in an urban community, where, in principle, everything can be discussed, divided, shared: each one's allowance, personal objects, relationships, political commitments. But things start to change with the arrival of a fifth resident, older and disillusioned, who puts in check the capacity of each one to live according to their ideas.

Coisa na Roda

1981

Coisa na Roda poster
9.0

Four students live in an urban community, where, in principle, everything can be discussed, divided, shared: each one's allowance, personal objects, relationships, political commitments. But things start to change with the arrival of a fifth resident, older and disillusioned, who puts in check the capacity of each one to live according to their ideas.

Coisa na Roda

1981