Dráuzio Varella
Birthday: Born in 1943-05-03 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Fantástico
Character: Reporter
Fantástico is a Brazilian weekly television newsmagazine broadcast on Sundays on Rede Globo....
Conversa com Bial
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Journalist Pedro Bial discusses the most important current news in Brazil and in the rest of the world....
Alergia - O corpo em alerta
Character: Self - Host
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Tudo ao Mesmo Tempo - A Vida com TDAH
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Nanismo
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Prisão Química – Casagrande e a Luta Contra a Cocaína
Character: Self - Host
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Drauzio em Campo
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Parada Obrigatória: Vencendo a Ansiedade
Character: Self
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Não Tá Tudo Bem, Mas Vai Ficar.
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
Sars-CoV-2: O Tempo da Pandemia
Character: Himself
Seven doctors and public health specialists accept the mission to fight the pandemic, working voluntarily. This unforeseen task in the careers of Paulo Chapchap, Maurício Ceschin, Gonzalo Vecina, Drauzio Varella, Sidney Klajner, Eugênio Vilaça and Pedro Barbosa is commented on by them. In addition to following this committee, the documentary brings reports from frontline professionals, working in São Paulo and Manaus, about the experience of going to Covid-19 to take care of patients and the eld...
Breaking the Taboo
Character: Self
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. Featuring prominent statesmen including Presidents Clinton and Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo and expose the biggest failure of global policy in the last 50 years...
Consideração do Poema
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Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Torres, Marilia Pera, Antonio Cicero and others....
Terceiro Lado
Character: Himself
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The Prisoner of the Iron Bars
Character: Himself
In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento trained some inmates and together with his crew, they produced many hours of footage, showing daily life in prison....
Encarcerados
Character: Self
Reveals the real, day-to-day life of penitentiary officers from São Paulo, Brazil....
Ilegal
Character: Ele mesmo
Her daughter afflicted by a rare epilepsy, Katiele tries desperately to obtain the only thing that can relieve it: a substance derived from marijuana....
Our Stories, Ourselves
Character: Self
Sixty-six adolescents, residents of Favela da Maré, were selected to participate in a dance show led by the choreographer Ivaldo Bertazzo, which incorporated their own daily experiences. Ten years later, directors David Meyer and Helena Soldberg search for some of the participants of this experience....
Letter Beyond the Walls
Character: Self
Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through interviews with doctors, activists, patients and other actors, in addition to extensive archival material. From the initial panic to awareness campaigns, passing through the stigma imposed on people living with HIV, the documentary shows how society faced this epidemic in its deadliest phase over more than two decades. With this historical approach as its base, the film looks at the way HIV is vie...
Talk to Him
Character: Dráuzio
Dr. Drauzio Varella has a hypothetical conversation with his friend Hector Babenco, a filmmaker who died in 2016. The importance of friendship is addressed in the documentary based on the death of a friend — and shows the decrease in happiness and the irreplaceable void left by this game....
Um Crime Entre Nós
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God and Devil on Top of the Wall
Character: Self
Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only a few unarmed employees. Small in number, these employees work in shifts. They are almost prisoners themselves, in a routine of tension, but also of humor and emotion. This prison was all too real. While it was in existence, the Carandiru was the largest prison in Latin America, administered by a reduced number of employees. The documentary shows, from the point of view of these few employees, ho...
Plurais
Character: Himself
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