Eduardo Coutinho
Eduardo Coutinho (1933-2014) enjoyed an extraordinary career in the Brazilian film industry, mainly as a documentarist. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a contemporary of many Cinema Novo filmmakers, friend and colleague of several of them, but he only became a director at the beginning of the 1980s, almost at the age of fifty, in a context entirely different from that of Brazil in the 1960s. He also studied law, theatre and journalism, in which he worked for many years. He is the author of articles on the Brazilian film industry published in newspapers and magazines. His first contact with the film world was at a seminar in 1954, but from then until 1957 he was the editor of Visão magazine and later decided to take up film studies at the prestigious Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC) in Paris. He worked on the script or in the production of major films directed by Leon Hirzsman (A Falecida, Garota de Ipanema), Eduardo Escorel (Lição de Amor), Bruno Barreto (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) and Zelito Viana (Os Condenados). In 1975, Coutinho joined the Globo Repórter team, where he remained for nine years, and, according to its director, it was an important learning curve that convinced him to move into documentary films. In spite of censorship, the team (made up of Paulo Gil Soares, João Batista de Andrade, Jorge Bodansky, and Oswaldo Caldeira, among others) managed to go in-depth into a number of topics. Coutinho’s documentaries from this period include Seis Dias em Ouricuri (on the drought and the hard labour in the outback), O Pistoleiro de Serra Talhada (on banditry in the north-east), O Imperador do Sertão (on Colonel Teodorico Bezerra) and O Menino de Brodósqui (on the painter, Cândido Portinari).
Babilônia 2000
(Self)
Twenty Years Later
(Himself)
The Memory Thread
(Himself (Voice))
Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro
(Himself)
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
(Self (archive footage))
Câncer
Last Conversations
(Self)
Madame Satã
(Juiz)
The Mighty Spirit
(Self (Interviewer))
Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
(Self)
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
(Self (archive footage))
1964: 40 Years After
The Girl from Ipanema
The Beggars
The Method
(Self)
Movie Theaters of Rio
(Self)
Dib
(Self)
Sete Visitas
(Self)
Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608
Capturing Reality
(Self)
Crítico
(Self)
Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira
(Self)
A Treat of Coutinho
(Self)
Destiny River
(Dr. Ricardo)
Master, a Building in Copacabana
(Director)
Master, a Building in Copacabana
(Screenplay)
Twenty Years Later
(Director)
Twenty Years Later
(Writer)
Playing
(Director)
Playing
(Screenplay)
Moscow
(Director)
The Memory Thread
(Director)
The Mighty Spirit
(Director)
The Mighty Spirit
(Writer)
O Fim e o Princípio
(Director)
A Day In The Life
(Director)
A Day In The Life
(Writer)
The Scavengers
(Director)
Faustão
(Director)
The Man Who Bought the World
(Director)
The Man Who Bought the World
(Writer)
Songs
(Director)
Theodorico, o Imperador do Sertão
(Director)
Santa Marta: Duas Semanas no Morro
(Director)
Babilônia 2000
(Director)
The Deceased
(Writer)
Metalworkers
(Director)
Fifty Years Later
(Director)
Sobreviventes de Galileia
(Director)
Seis Dias de Ouricuri
(Director)
Last Conversations
(Director)
Porrada!
(Director)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
(Screenplay)
The Girl from Ipanema
(Screenplay)
Os Condenados
(Screenplay)
Faustão
(Screenplay)
Faustão
(Story)
Faustão
(Music)
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
(Screenplay)
The Girl from Ipanema
(Story)
Songs
(Writer)
O Homem de Areia
(Writer)
Lição de Amor
(Screenplay)
Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja
(Director)
Cinco Vezes Favela
(Production Manager)
Ulysses Cidadão
(Writer)
Seis Dias de Ouricuri
(Writer)
A Day In The Life
(Editor)
O Pistoleiro de Serra Talhada
(Director)
Twenty Years Later
(Producer)
Os Romeiros do Padre Cícero
(Director)
O Fim e o Princípio
(Associate Producer)
Volta Redonda – Memorial Da Greve
(Director)
O Jogo da Dívida: Quem Deve a Quem?
(Director)
A Lei e a Vida
(Director)
Superstição
(Director)
Dá pra Segurar!
(Director)
Portinari, O Menino de Brodósqui
(Director)
Seis Histórias
(Director)
Mulheres no Front
(Director)
The ABC of Love
(Director)
Índia, a Filha do Sol
(Co-Writer)
Oswaldo Cruz na Amazônia
(Consulting Producer)
Le Telephone
(Director)