Fernando Teixeira Movies
- 2006
Violence and hatred against women run free in a rural village in Brazil in this intense drama from writer and director Claudio Assis. Auxilidora (Mariah Teixeira) is a teenager who lives with her grandfather Heitor (Fernando Teixeira in a small town dominated by a sugar plantation. Auxilidora is little more than an indentured servant to Heitor, and after working all day in his home he forces her to expose herself to strange men, who have paid for the privilege of watching her as they masturbate. While Auxilidora sees a glimmer of affection and hope in her budding relationship with a friendly ditch-digger, she's also attracted the attention of Everado (Matheus Nachtergaele), a psychotic thug who is seemingly unable to relate to women without the threat of rape or physical assault. Baixio das Bestas (aka Bog of Beasts) won Best Picture honors at the 2006 Brasilia Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maria Teixeira, Fernando Teixeira, (more)
- 1995
The young peasantry of a Brazilian village launch a grass-roots rebellion against the brutal businessmen who oppress and exploit them, providing the basis of this gentle, socially conscientious Brazilian drama. Jocelia is one of those villagers. She has come to Rio de Janeiro to study law and currently works in a homeless shelter. There she meets one of the men who enforced the businessmen's unfair laws. Their history is then presented via flashback. It all began 10 years ago in the village of Maracao where children and their parents are forced to work in the horrible cane fields. The leader of the town controllers cheats them out of their only real source of income, fresh crabs. The people are also forced to pay a high price for water from the community well. The people are miserable, but live peacefully under the many rules until a young nun arrives. The village youth are drawn to her and begin hanging around her humble abode. Though she does not lead them or try to incite them to action against the dictators, the youth are inspired by her presence. It is they who secretly organize to overthrow the town crooks so that everyone can have free access to water. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1983
On the eve of the October, 1930 installation of Getulio Vargas as a dictator in Brazil, a leader of the opposition Liberal Alliance Party was murdered. This imaginative and well-wrought, fictional film is about the indirect involvement of Anayde Beiriz (Tania Alves) in that murder, but rather than focus on the political consequences, the film concentrates on the personality and character of the woman herself. Anayde was not bound by puritanical or religious restrictions in her relationships with men, and so her affair with the journalist Joao Dantes (Claudio Marzo) was sexually liberated for its time. Dantas had tight political connections with the military head of the Republican Party, making his own politics clear - what is less clear is the motivation for his subsequent actions. When the leader of the Liberal Alliance Party invades Dantas' apartment and makes public intimate letters and photographs of his relationship with Anayde, the journalist tracks down the man in a restaurant, and kills him. Since the dictator Vargas was supported by Dantas and considered a fascist by many, the underlying questions about Anayde are whether or not she could be considered "liberated," or was she simply a product of one time, one political outlook, and one place? ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Claudio Marzo, Walmor Chagas, (more)
