Sergio Rezende Movies
- 1994
This Brazilian film, set over a nine month period between December 1970 and September 1971, chronicles the true story the hunt for Carlos Lamarca, the military renegade and leader of a revolutionary group that in 1970 kidnapped a Swiss ambassador to Brazil. Following the kidnapping, the revolutionaries were individually hunted down, killed or tortured as the authorities searched the jungles of the Bahia region in search of Lamarca. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paulo Betti, Carla Camurati, (more)
- 1989
Leticia (Vera Fischer) is a beautiful woman who is the obsession of two men. One is her extremely jealous ex-lover, the other is a pilot who routinely makes trips to the gold mines in the jungles of the Amazon. Leticia is embroiled in a scheme to sell a forged painting which is supposedly by a famous artist. So is her ex and his assistant. Things get heated as the romantic competition between the two men is complicated by the shady business deal, and the action reaches a climax in the Amazon jungle. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vera Fischer, Paulo Betti, (more)
- 1986
A better-than-average Brazilian docudrama, this look at 20 years in the life of the notorious Tenorio Cavalcanti (Jose Wilker) leans heavily on the contributions of his family. Cavalcanti was a gunslinger in the tradition of an American Western. He was elected to Congress, where he showed up wearing a long black coat, a matching beard, and toting a machine gun. He is reputed to have killed many an opponent and built himself a veritable fortress for protection against his enemies -- which would eventually include the Brazilian army. He defended the rights of the people of the Duque de Caxias region with a vengeance. This drama takes particular note of his activities between 1945, when he joined a major political party, and 1964, when a military coup ousted the elected president. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jose Wilker, Marieta Severo, (more)
- 1982
Two young friends grow up in the same region and share the same music and dances, and the same religious and cultural customs, yet their paths slowly diverge 180 degrees because one is the son of a politician and the other the son of a laborer. As the two grow apart, each has to address problems such as the abuse of power and the influence of a drug underground that are shared by many societies. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lucelia Santos, Chico Diaz, (more)
- 1980
An exposé of the Brazilian blood-bank business, this hard-hitting documentary takes a rare look at the social strata that supplies most of the blood to the industry and details what happens from there. As director Sergio Rezende emphasizes through interviews, most of the donors are from the poorest classes who need the small amount of money they get for their blood in order to cover the basic cost of living. In other instances, the donors are drug addicts or alcoholics looking for a way to buy their next fix. In either case, the health of the donor is not called into question and as a result, hepatitis and other diseases have been passed on through transfusions. Making matters all the worse, 75 percent of blood donations go to multinational corporations who make gammaglobulin and albumine, all unaffordable to the lowest economic denominator in Brazil. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
