Paulo Autran
Birthday: Born in 1922-09-07 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deathday: 2007-10-12
Paulo Paquet Autran (Rio de Janeiro, September 7, 1922 — São Paulo, October 12, 2007) was a Brazilian theater, film and television actor. His accomplishments during his life earned him the nickname, "Lord of the Stage".
TV Credits
Guerra dos Sexos
Character: Otávio de Alcântara Rodrigues e Silva
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Sassaricando
Character: Aparício Varela (Cicinho) / Sir Edward Whitehurst
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Hilda Furacão
Character: Padre Nelson
After stirring society by leaving her groom at the alter and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "Hilda the Hurricane", in the 50's Brazil. She could do fine if it wasn't for Malthus, a young novice said to be a saint, for whom she falls in love. However, the boy is kept under the strict, severe doctrine of Father Nelson, a conservative priest intolerant even to every minor sin. Things start getting harder when Roberto, Malthus' o...
Pai Herói
Character: Bruno Baldaracci (Nuno)
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Brasileiras e Brasileiros
Character:
Brasileiros e Brasileiras is a Brazilian telenovela shown in some schedules SBT between November 5, 1990 and May 14, 1991. Writing for the show was done by Carlos Alberto Sofredini and Walter Avancini, who also directed it. The show was a co-production of the Miksom....
Movie Credits
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Character: Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."...
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Character: Mótel, Mauro's grandfather
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil....
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Character: Self / Interviewee
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues....
Entranced Earth
Character: Porfírio Diaz
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be....
The Past
Character: Prof. Pousièrre
After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and constantly harasses him. She reappears again and again on Rímini's horizon to reconquer him, torture him or redeem him....
The Machine
Character: Antônio no Futuro
In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré’s son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world to Karina. For that, Antônio leaves town and announces, in a TV show that he will set off on a sensational adventure: a trip into the future, starting from Nordestina’s square. A story where dreams contradict reality, geographical and political cond...
É Proibido Beijar
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Eduardo wants to become a police reporter. To do so, he unravels a mysterious crime, but fails to get the editor of his newspaper to promote it. He is engaged to Suzy, who works at a nightclub. In charge of interviewing a famous actress, June, gets involved in several embarrassing situations that are created by Suzy and two other reporters, Harry and Steve, who follow June since her arrival in Brazil....
Uma Pulga na Balança
Character: Antenor Motta Freixoso
Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives....
Veneno
Character: Doctor
An employee of a glass factory suffers with his wife's contempt and starts to develop homicidal delusions about her. One night, he meets a singer which resembles his wife a lot and conjures up a plan....
Oriundi
Character: Dr. Enzo
In a love story set in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, a patriarch witnesses the crumbling of his life-long family business at the hands of his descendants. Suddenly Sofia appears. Is she from this world, and is she the key to this family's happiness and their hope for survival?...
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Character: Self
italian documentary...
Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos
Character: Self (archive footage)
A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil....
Tiradentes
Character: Pennaforte
The story of one of the most important Brazilian heroes, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes. He was the leader of a group who tried to proclaim Brazil's Independence from Portugal in 1789. But he was betrayed by one of his comrades and hanged....
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Character: Self
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967....
Depois do Transe
Character: Self
The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."...
O País dos Tenentes
Character: Gui
With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup....
Fogo e Paixão
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The story of citizens from different parts of the world who come together to participate in a project to visit a Latin American city, however its location is not revealed....
Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova
Character: Self (archive footage)
Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style....
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Character: Self (archive footage)
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes....
Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
Character: Self (archive footage)
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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
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For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he m...
Appassionata
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Sílvia Nogalis a concert pianist prefers her career to marriage. On the night when she performs "Appassionata" by Beethoven she receives news of the suicide of her husband, the master Walter Hauser....
As Sete Evas
Character: Candinho
When a lady-killer announces his wedding, seven of his ex-girlfriends decide to kidnap him, keeping him in a sailing ship....
Felicidade É...
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Four directors tell stories related to the concept of happiness....
Inezita Barroso - A Voz e a Viola
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Destiny in Trouble
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This was Brazil's first feature film in color....
Le tout pour le tout
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An unlucky trumpeter and a young singer try to rebuild their lives in Brazilian nightclubs. They will try everything for everything while making a risky heist....
Teatro Brasileiro: Origem e Mudança
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O Menino Arco-Íris
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Crônica da Cidade Amada
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Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time....
O Construtor de Sonhos
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O Transformista
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