Hugo CarvanaFilmography

O Homen Nu

Crew: Director

Actors: Claudio Marzo, Lucia Verisimo, Daniel Dantas, Isabel Fillardis, Maria Zilda Bethlem

Synopsis: This crazy Brazilian sex comedy follows the revealing travails of Professor Silvio Proenca, a noted Brazilian folklorist from Rio who through a series of mishaps finds himself the most notorious and hunted man in his country. His odyssey begins when the middle-aged academic's beautiful wife Marina Read More

Boca de Ouro

Actors: Tarcisio Meira, Hugo Carvana, Maria Padilha

Synopsis: Boca de Ouro is a Brazilian gangster who has had all his teeth pulled out and replaced with golden ones as an announcement of his power and ruthlessness. In this story, based on a 1959 play by Nelson Rodrigues, chronicles the swath he cuts through Brazilian society: his power puts him on a par Read More

Leila Diniz

Actors: Louise Cardoso, Diogo Vilela, Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Tony Ramos, Marieta Severo

Synopsis: Every country no doubt has its golden youths who die before they have had a chance to come to full flower and who leave a romantic legend behind them. In the U.S., one of these was James Dean. In Brazil, the fans of the actress Leila Diniz were similarly bereft when she died in the late 1960s. Read More

Avaete, A Semente Da Vinganca

Actors: Hugo Carvana, Renata Sorrah, Milton Rodriguez

Synopsis: In a fictional story that exaggerates and condenses historical realities for the sake of dramatic impact, an isolated, quiet village of the Avaete people along the Amazon River is attacked by murderous psychos in the pay of a corrupt politician. Villagers are strafed from the air, bombed, and shot Read More

Bete Balanco

Actors: Debora Bloch, Diogo Vilela, Hugo Carvana, Arthur Muhlenberg

Synopsis: Filled with rock music from beginning to end, this teen-oriented drama tells the story of Bete Balanco's (Débora Bloch) rise to musical stardom from modest beginnings. Bete gets away from under the thumb of her parents and goes to Rio with her photographer-boyfriend to start her climb from nobody Read More

Bar Esperanca - O Ultiimo Que Fecha

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hugo Carvana, Anselmo Vasconcelos, Nelson Dantas, Louise Cardoso

Synopsis: This boisterous Brazilian comedy is set in Dona Esperanzas lively bar and revolves around the tempestuous love between a bitchy soap opera diva and her husband, a writer for her show and an author of pulp romances. The trouble begins because the actress has become too involved with her role and Read More

Mar De Rosas

Actors: Norma Benguell, Hugo Carvana, Cristina Pereira, Otavio Augusto

Synopsis: The antagonism portrayed in this explosive black comedy makes a dysfunctional family seem like the Brady bunch. Director Ana Carolina has her leads play it straight, allowing the absurdity of their situations to speak for itself. Felicidade (Norma Benguel) has just slashed her husband with a razor Read More

Ate a ultima gota

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Tenda Dos Milagres

Actors: Hugo Carvana, Sonia Dias

Synopsis: This Brazilian satire is by one of the founders of the Cinema Novo filmmaking movement, Nelson Pereira dos Santos. The film chronicles the chaos that results when a prominent American Nobel Prize winner arrives in Bahía, with nothing but praise on his lips for a long-forgotten local Read More

A Queda

Actors: Nelson Xavier, Lima Duarte, Isabel Ribeiro, Maria Silvia, Hugo Carvana

Synopsis: When a construction worker falls to his death due to a deliberate laxness in safety regulations, the construction foreman's son-in-law attempts to get some compensation from the construction company for the man's widow. Instead, he runs into obstruction after obstruction. This impassioned Read More

Amor, Carnaval E Sonho

Synopsis: This film is by one of the founders of Brazilian "Cinema Novo," a style of filmmaking emphasizing native Brazilian themes and highly charged and stylized religious imagery. In Rio just before Carnaval (the local version of the raucous Mardi-Gras celebration) a girl deliberately smashes a small Read More

Toda Nudez Sera Castigada

Synopsis: The Brazilian All Nudity Shall Be Punished is just as satirical (and silly) as its title suggests. The story concerns a straight-laced family whose very strict morals have been governed for years by their indomitable matriarch. When the old lady dies, the family tries its best to uphold her Read More

Der Leone Have Sept Cabecas

Actors: Rada Rassimov, Hugo Carvana, Giulio Brogi, Gabriele Tinti, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: This disturbing story of religious and political confusion in Latin America finds the CIA trying to infiltrate rebels loyal to a puppet government. A local guerilla fighter is tortured by a priest and his cronies who take sadistic pleasure in the torment of their victims. A blonde woman loyal to a Read More

Pindorama

Synopsis: This Brazilian film is set during the period of its initial colonial discovery and settlement. The title refers to a word the native peoples used for the coastal lands: "pindorama," or "place of the small trees." A ponderous and grandiose film, it was roundly booed when it was aired at the 1971 Read More

A Vida Provisoria

Actors: Paulo José, Dina Sfat, Joana Fomm, Marcia Rodrigues

Synopsis: Estevao (Paulo Jose) is the newspaper reporter sent to the capitol to cover the appointment of a government minister. Carrying some important papers for another government official, he is shadowed by two mysterious strangers. The men grab the reporter and beat him until he feels he will die. His Read More

O Bravo Guerreiro

Actors: Paulo Cesar Pereio

Synopsis: This arty and cerebral film offers a scathing behind-the-scenes look at local Brazilian politics, its main target being the ridiculous rhetoric that is the tool of the politician's trade. Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government, so he Read More

O Dragao da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro

Actors: Mauricio do Valle, Odette Lara, Othon Bastos, Hugo Carvana, Jofre Soares

Synopsis: The Brazilian Antonio Das Mortes casts Mauricio De Valle as a mercenary peacekeeper. Agreeing to hunt down and kill rebel soldiers, the mercenary becomes increasingly drawn to the rebel's cause. His 11th-hour turnaround does not prevent the film from ending in a bloodbath. Antonio das Mortes Read More

O Desafio

Actors: Hugo Carvana

Synopsis: The wife of a wealthy captain of industry carries on an affair with a younger man who works for a magazine in this combination romantic and political drama. A trip to her husband's factory opens her eyes to the fact that he provides for many people. She soon realizes that the young writer is Read More

Terra em Transe

Actors: Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran, Jose Lewgoy, Glauber Rocha, Paulo Gracindo

Synopsis: This Brazilian example of cinema novo chronicles the struggle of a man deeply entangled within unstable and crooked politics. The story is told in flashback by a writer who explains how he got into his present situation. He had been supporting a conservative party leader, but then decided to Read More

Os Fuzis

Actors: Nelson Xavier, Maria Gladys

Synopsis: In the northeastern region of Brazil, local farmers are unable to grow sufficient crops on their arid land. When a holy man arrives and claims that his "sacred" ox will bring them rain if they follow where it leads, the naive peasants believe him. They follow the mystical creature to a nearby Read More