Hugo Carvana — Actor (22)

Movie

The Naked Man (1997)
O Homem Nu
other title: O Homem Nu
Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.

TV

Black August (1993)
Agosto WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Agosto / August
The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar at the beginning of August. In the midst of the Vargas government crisis, the murder case is taken by police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man who is not well regarded by his co-workers, as the place is totally turned over to corruption.

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All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973)
Toda Nudez Será Castigada
Arnaldo Jabor actor: Paulo Porto / Darlene Glória …
other title: Toda Nudez Será Castigada / Toda desnudez será castigada …
A rich man encounters a prostitute and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her. He can't decide between attraction and repulsion.

Movie

Bullock Cart (1974)
Carro de Bois IMDb TMDB
other title: Carro de Bois
Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais, it was Mauro's only film in color and also his last.

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The Unscrupulous Ones (1962)
Os Cafajestes WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ruy Guerra actor: Norma Bengell / Jece Valadão …
other title: Os Cafajestes / The Hustlers …
Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.

Movie

The Lion Has Seven Heads (1971)
Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças WikiData IMDb TMDB
Glauber Rocha actor: Rada Rassimov / Jean-Pierre Léaud …
other title: Il leone a sette teste / O Leão de Sete Cabeças …
A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.

Movie

The Deceased (1965)
A Falecida WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Leon Hirszman actor: Fernanda Montenegro / Ivan Cândido …
other title: A Falecida / Die Tote …
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.

Movie

The Dare (1965)
O Desafio WikiData IMDb TMDB
Paulo César Saraceni actor: Isabella Cerqueira Campos / Oduvaldo Vianna Filho …
other title: O Desafio
Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in 1960s Brazil, a journalist enters a personal crisis, aggravated by his affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son.

Movie

The Angel Was Born (1969)
O Anjo Nasceu WikiData IMDb TMDB
Júlio Bressane actor: Hugo Carvana / Milton Gonçalves …
other title: L'angelo è nato / O Anjo Nasceu …
Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.

Movie

The Fall (1976)
A Queda WikiData IMDb TMDB
Nelson Xavier / Ruy Guerra actor: Nelson Xavier / Lima Duarte …
other title: A Queda / Der Fall …
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.

Movie

The Guns (1964)
Os Fuzis
Ruy Guerra actor: Átila Iório / Nelson Xavier …
other title: I fucili / Os Fuzis …
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.

Movie

Antonio das Mortes (1969)
O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro
Glauber Rocha actor: Maurício do Valle / Odete Lara …
other title: O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro / Antonio Das Mortes …
A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.

Movie

Before, the Summer (1968)
Antes, o Verão IMDb TMDB
Gerson Tavares actor: Jardel Filho / Norma Bengell …
other title: Antes, o Verão
A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the breaches of the house, their marriage begins to crumble. And like a bad omen, a mysterious murder takes place in the vicinity.

Movie

Pitanga (2016)
Pitanga TMDB
Beto Brant / Camila Pitanga actor: Antônio Pitanga / Camila Pitanga …
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.

Movie

Avaete, Seed of Revenge (1985)
Avaeté - Semente da Vingança TMDB
Zelito Viana actor: Hugo Carvana / Macsuara Kadiweu …
other title: Avaeté - Semente da Vingança / Avaeté, la graine de la vengeance
Little Indian boy survives his tribe massacre, growing up together with his wish for revenge and his quest for his own identity. Based on a true story.

Movie

Macunaima (1969)
Macunaíma
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade actor: Grande Otelo / Paulo José …
other title: Macunaíma / Macunaïma …
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.