Antunes Filho

Directing

Antunes Filho

Born 1929-12-12 · São Paulo, Brazil

José Alves Antunes Filho, better known as Antunes Filho (São Paulo, December 12, 1929 – São Paulo, May 2, 2019), was a Brazilian theater director, considered by critics and several artists as one of the main theatrical names and country directors.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

A Implosão poster
NR

Antunes Filho's TV adaptation of Consuelo de Castro's play "Implosão" where the author draws a parallel between the first implosion of a building in São Paulo, the Mendes Caldeira building, in November 1975, and the collapse of a marriage, suffocated by economic needs and relationship problems that end up leading them from a progressive separation to a loneliness as a couple.

A Implosão

1976

Reveillon poster
NR

As the clock ticks away announcing the end of the year, the four members of a family reveal their inabilities and frustrations, their defeats and the monotony of a life that drags on in a solitary way, even as a group.

Reveillon

1976

Caso Clínico poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Caso Clínico

1977

Compasso de Espera poster
8.3

Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.

Compasso de Espera

1969

Compasso de Espera poster
8.3

Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.

Compasso de Espera

1969

Um Caso Extraordinário poster
NR

The story of two famous surgeons who are led, under mysterious circumstances, into the presence of an even more mysterious personality.

Um Caso Extraordinário

1975

Cordiais Saudações, Mr. Kissinger poster
NR

Dina Sfat plays Carlos Dolabella's romantic partner in a fictional soap opera that fascinates the daughter and wife of a simple country man, played by Jofre Soares. After receiving a TV set, Soares begins to doubt his traditional knowledge of weather forecasts and begins to worry about the end of the world due to the oil crisis and pollution.

Cordiais Saudações, Mr. Kissinger

1976

Vestido de Noiva poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vestido de Noiva

1974

Vestido de Noiva poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vestido de Noiva

1974