With free eyes, an open heart, good friends and a handful of luck, Gurcius Gewdner revisits some of his adventures of the past five years, survives the relentless Russian winter and asks the following question: How far can an underground Brazilian film go?
An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Carlos Oscar Reichenbach Filho (14 June 1945 – 14 June 2012) was a Brazilian filmmaker. Born in Porto Alegre, Reichenbach was one year of age when he went to live in São Paulo. He studied in the School of Cinema São Luiz under Luis Sérgio Person. With João Callegaro and Antonio Lima he made his first feature-length films, the anthologies "As Libertinas" (1968) and "Audácia, a fúria dos desejos" (1969). His final film was "Start a History" in 2011.