Carlos KroeberFilmography

Occupation:
Actor

  • The Fifth Monkey

    Actors: Ben Kingsley, Mika Lins, Vera Fischer, Sylvia de Carvalho, Carlos Kroeber

    Synopsis: Ben Kingsley headlines this thoughtful adventure that was filmed on location in Brazil. The story centers on Cunda, a poor hunter who makes his meager living killing snakes. One day, he runs across four chimpanzees. The hunter is elated, for he hopes that selling them in the Big City will net him Read More

    10/5/90

  • Vera

    Actors: Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Raul Cortez, Aida Leiner, Carlos Kroeber, Cida Almeida

    Synopsis: Brazilian teenager Vera (Ana Beatriz Nogueria) is released from the orphanage where she has spent most of her life. Her brutal experiences while a ward of the State have caused her to adopt masculine dress and mannerisms--a successful effort to wield power over her fellow orphans. On the outside Read More

    1987

  • Chico Rei

    Actors: Severo D'Acelino, Othon Bastos, Cosme Dos Santos, Carlos Kroeber, Antonio Pitanga

    Synopsis: Weighing in heavily on the side of atrocities against the black slaves of 18th-century Brazil, this uneven drama is centered on the legend of Galanga, King of the Congo. Galanga is first captured and after the long segments of atrocities have subsided, his owner promises him full freedom if he can Read More

    1986

  • Noites do Sertão

    Actors: Cristina Ache, Debora Bloch, Carlos Kroeber, Carlos Wilson, Tony Ramos

    Synopsis: Set in the 1950s in the state of Minas Gerais, just north of Rio de Janeiro, this film by Carlos Alberto Prates-Correa is a work of literary and cinematic art, conveying the story of people on a farm with sensual images and evocative dialogue. The film received several awards in Brazil's 1984 Read More

    1984

  • Luz Del Fuego

    Actors: Lucelia Santos, Walmor Chagas, Joel Barcelos

    Synopsis: Lucelia Santos plays the controversial Luz del Fuego in this film about the Brazilian striptease maven who performed with equally naked live snakes, in an era (the 1950s) when striptease, with or without live snakes, was a social pariah. She went on to found a nudist colony on an island in Rio's Read More

    1982

  • Bye Bye Brazil

    Actors: Jose Wilker, Betty Faria, Fabio Junior, Zaira Zambelli, Prinicipe Nabor

    Synopsis: Bye Bye Brazil, the gifted director Carlos Diegues' follow-up to his 1978 Xica da Silva, became one of the most popular and fiscally successful imports of late '70s and early '80s South American cinema. Bye Bye is a muted and low-key ensemble drama about a shabby circus crawling from small town to Read More

    1979

  • Joanna Francesca

    Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Carlos Kroeber, Eliezer Gomes, Pierre Cardin

    Synopsis: As the players in this dark drama move across the screen, they symbolize aspects of the human psyche and society that force the viewer to judge them at a certain distance. Particularly jarring is the saga of a young child who was born out of an incestuous relationship and is kept locked up and Read More

    1975

  • La Congiura

    Synopsis: Revolutionaries in 16th-century Brazil come in for close study in this 1972 Brazilian/Italian film. A group of intellectuals, with the exception of a Corporal Tiradentes, these revolutionaries plotted the overthrow of the Portuguese colonial government. In a compelling scene, an informer slips Read More

    1972

  • A Casa Assassinada

    Synopsis: The down-at-the-heels aristocrats in this Brazilian film can barely keep their moral compasses on an even keel at the best of times. When one of the women of the family throws herself wholeheartedly into a life of passion and eroticism, they haven't a clue what to do. As they begin to find ways to Read More

    1971

  • E Simonal

    Actors: Carlos Kroeber

    Synopsis: This documentary covers the popular Brazilian singer Wilson Simonal. He delivers a series of songs in this feature that appears to be a promotional advertisement. Zany situations give a dose of comedy to this otherwise pedestrian effort. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

    1970

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