
Acting
Fernando Gabeira
Born
1941-02-17 (85)
Place of birth
Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Known for
Acting
Credits
18 titles
Fernando Paulo Nagle Gabeira (January 17, 1941) is a Brazilian journalist, writer and politician. He began his journalistic career as a reporter at Jornal do Brasil. In 1970, was arrested in São Paulo by the military dictatorship, went into exile and passed through several countries, including Chile, Sweden and Italy. In 1979, returned to Brazil and worked as a journalist and writer. He was a candidate for the government of Rio de Janeiro in 1986; elected federal deputy in 1994 and re-elected in 1998 and 2002. Gabeira dedicated himself to an intense literary production, building the first critical analyzes of the armed struggle and promoting discussions on topics such as individual freedom…
Known for
8.0Journalist Pedro Bial discusses the most important current news in Brazil and in the rest of the world.
Conversa com Bial
2017
NRThis documentary reveals the man behind the icon Cazuza: the poet who transformed his life into art and his death into resistance. It delves into the intense journey of the young man who sang of love, Brazil, and his freedom until his last verse.
Cazuza Além da Música
2025
NRThe man who changed Brazilian journalism. The film focuses on the period of Samuel's life spanning from 1951—the year the newspaper Última Hora was founded—to the mid-1960s, when its decline began.
Samuel Wainer
2023
7.5Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
Four Days in September
1997
NRDocumentary about the trajectory of the Brazilian journalist, writer and politician Fernando Gabeira. With testimonies of Armínio Fraga, Aguinaldo Silva, Leda Nagle, among others.
Gabeira
2017
5.0Documentary about the cinema that formed the Paissandu Generation, in the 60s, and the cultural and social impact of that period for the country's history.
Cine Paissandu: Histórias de uma Geração
2013
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
NRThe man who changed Brazilian journalism. The film focuses on the period of Samuel's life spanning from 1951—the year the newspaper Última Hora was founded—to the mid-1960s, when its decline began.
Samuel Wainer
2023
8.0After a brush with death, Maya Gabeira makes history in the male-dominated world of big wave surfing.
Maya and the Wave
2024
NRThe most successful case of collective fight for women's rights in Brazil.
Lobby do Batom
2022
2010s · 5 titles
NRDocumentary about the trajectory of the Brazilian journalist, writer and politician Fernando Gabeira. With testimonies of Armínio Fraga, Aguinaldo Silva, Leda Nagle, among others.
Gabeira
2017
5.0Documentary about the cinema that formed the Paissandu Generation, in the 60s, and the cultural and social impact of that period for the country's history.
Cine Paissandu: Histórias de uma Geração
2013
NRLearn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.
Marcos Medeiros - Codinome Vampiro
2018
6.6We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes.
1964: Brazil between weapons and books
2019
NRA look at Rio's cultural, political and technical revolutions since the 1970s to 2011
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
2014
2000s · 2 titles
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 about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian press, produced daily for six months, in the 1960s. The newspaper spoke of culture, politics and education through satires and prominent figures in the cultural scene of the time passed through him. Archive scenes and music from the period seek to reconstitute the spirit of the 68-generation. The film has the participation of personalities such as Ziraldo, Zuenir Ventura, Arnaldo Jabor, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Carlos Heitor Cony, Fernando Gabeira, Betty Faria, Hugo Carvana, among others.
O Sol - Caminhando Contra o Vento
2006
1990s · 3 titles
7.3Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.
The Comrade: The Life of Luiz Carlos Prestes
1997
6.7A comedy addressing the issues of being single in Rio de Janeiro.
Como Ser Solteiro
1998
NRHumorous short about the 1989 Brazilian presidential election.
Zona Eleitoral
1990
1980s · 2 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sônia Morta Viva
1985
NRIn 1969, Fernando Gabeira was among terrorists who kidnapped Charles Burke Elbrick, then the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Eventually Gabeira was captured and tortured before being exiled from his homeland for eight years. He talks candidly about his experiences in captivity as well as the abduction and the motivation behind choosing Elbrick.
Portrait of a Terrorist
1985
Series credits
8.0Journalist Pedro Bial discusses the most important current news in Brazil and in the rest of the world.
Conversa com Bial
2017
NRThis documentary reveals the man behind the icon Cazuza: the poet who transformed his life into art and his death into resistance. It delves into the intense journey of the young man who sang of love, Brazil, and his freedom until his last verse.
Cazuza Além da Música
2025
