Jorge Bodanzky (Directing)
Little is known about Jorge Bodanzky, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
As Cores e Amores de Lore
Release Date:2025-02-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Limites do diáfano
A compilation of some of the Super-8 materials shot by Jorge Bodanzky during the Brazilian military dictatorship, blending domestic footage, experiments with the cinematographic medium, and the traces, in an amateur format, of some of his thematic and stylistic obsessions.
Release Date:2024-04-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Narrator
Amazônia, A Nova Minamata?
Release Date:2022-10-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Transamazonica: A Highway to the Past
The Transamazon highway was a gigantic saga, the greatest example of the pharaonic works of the Brazilian military government. But the road that would promote national integration was best known for linking the famine of the Northeast with the misery of the Amazon. This haunting docuseries follows the story of the construction of this highway and its morbid consequences.
Release Date:2021-02-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:1
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.
Release Date:2020-11-26
Department:Camera
Job:Still Photographer
Vote Count:15
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
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.
Release Date:2020-10-22
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Utopia, Distopia
Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of Brasilia to show us a tableau of youth in the 1960s, with their dreams and expectations, their hardships, and interrupted projects.
Release Date:2020-09-08
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Character:Self
Rito do Amor Selvagem
Release Date:2019-09-04
Character:Self
Ruivaldo, O Homem que Salvou a Terra
In Brazil, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the region of the Rio Taquari, the increasing and continuous silting of the rivers has led to the overflow of waters and the flooding of lands over the years, causing significant changes in the lives of its inhabitants. This has made it impossible to cultivate the soil and raise livestock, a form of livelihood for local families. Member of one of these families, Ruivaldo Nery Andrade, our guide character, struggles to save his farm, through the construction of a manual system of dikes to contain and alter the course of invading waters and, thus, resume his activities and guarantee the survival of the land.
Release Date:2019-07-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
The Age of Water
The film warns us about the world's water crisis and the international greed for the Amazon Forest, the largest fresh water reservoir on the planet. In addition to concentrating 20% of the world's drinking water, the Amazon is the region with the greatest chance of maintaining its water sources in the next decades, thanks to the humidity of its forest.
Release Date:2018-07-19
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
O Clique Único de Assis Horta
Documentary about the Minas Gerais photographer Assis Horta, who immortalized the architectural heritage and society of Diamantina. The great impulse of his career came in 1943, with the Consolidation of Labor Laws, promulgated by Getúlio Vargas. By making mandatory a professional card with photo, Vargas gave the push that the working class needed to enter Horta's photographic studio. In the years that followed, the photographer portrayed hundreds of people. In 3x4 or full-length, many took their first portrait.
Release Date:2015-10-09
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Pandemonium
Release Date:2010-06-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
In the middle of the River, Between Trees
Filmmaker Jorge Bodanzky gives some classes to local communties at Alto Solimões in the Amazom and collect the results.
Release Date:2009-12-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
À Margem do Concreto
Release Date:2007-03-02
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
Navigating the Amazon: A Voyage with Jorge Mautner
In March 2006, the team for the Navegar Amazônia project left the Jandiá Channel in Macapá, bound for Belém. On board a regional boat, adapted with a modern multimedia laboratory, were the project team and thirty persons, including musicians and filmmakers. The objective was, along the way, to offer workshops in music, cinema, photography, video and art to the population visited on the river's edge. The documentary is a record of the interaction between the guests and the local population. The Navegar Amazônia project captures and conveys contents of the Amazon in a unique way: from the heart of the forest and from the river to the world.
Release Date:2006-04-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Era Uma Vez Iracema
Release Date:2005-07-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
360° - Die GEO Reportage
Release Date:1999-01-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:5
À propos de "Tristes Tropiques"
The film evokes the stay in Brazil of Claude Levi-Strauss, an ethnologist, who stayed there from 1934 to 1938. His stay gave rise to the book "Tristes Tropiques". Based on images taken in 1935 and today, his statements reconstruct his intellectual journey in the field of ethnology. Searching for primitive worlds, he tried to understand the Indians whose decaying societies offered an "essence of social life." The work gives us an account of the importance of this scientific and philosophical expedition.
Release Date:1991-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Ôrí
A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.
Release Date:1989-05-02
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Vote Count:4
A Igreja dos Oprimidos
Documentary that tells several stories: of the struggle of rural workers in Conceição to recover their union; of Dona Mariquinha, widow of a murdered squatter and her miraculous effort to survive with her six children; de Rosa and community work in the Olaria neighborhood; the peasant Pé de Ouro and his family living in extreme poverty; de Oneide, the widow of Gringo, the rural leader killed by gunmen when he disputed in 1980 the presidency of the Sindicato de Conceição, etc.
Release Date:1986-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Terceiro Milênio
August, 1980. Evandro Carreira, a Brazilian senator leaves his party's office in Manaus to visit his constituents in the state of Amazonas. Interviews with farmhands, loggers, explorer Paulo Lucena, Brazilian and Peruvian Indians and a representative of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) were recorded from the city of Benjamin Constant to the village of Cavalo Cocho. A visit to the indigenous village of the Ticunas and the lands of the Maiuruna people culminate with an interview and the actions of José Francisco da Cruz, a member of the Order of the Holy Cross. Throughout the trip, the economic potential of the Amazon and its problems (corruption in the indigenous policies and the pollution produced by factories) are shown.
Release Date:1981-08-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Jari
Documentary filmed in the Jari Project area – multinational enclave, located between Pará and the then Federal Territory of Amapá, on the occasion of the visit made to the Project by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry about the devastation of the Amazon. Jari is the largest known land occupation in the Amazon, and probably the largest in the world, to belong to a single owner, the American millionaire Daniel Keith Ludwig.
Release Date:1979-05-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Os Mucker
In 1873 in Rio Grande do Sul, a group of peasants come together to form a community of brothers, arousing the enmity of the rest of the population. They are immigrants from the German region and develop a communitary social model, having the Bible as a code of morals, faith and conduct. The group's economic independence ends up irritating the locals to the point of provoking successive aggressions that culminate in a bloody massacre.
Release Date:1979-04-19
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:1
Iracema
A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by the Brazilian censorship. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.
Release Date:1975-07-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:21
Gitirana
Yesterday, the inhabitants of the Nordeste had to abandon their land for lack of water. Today, floods are driving them out... Deprived of their roots, the people continue to remain faithful to their traditions and beliefs, while progress is imposed by the power of money.
Release Date:1975-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Folias do Divino
Release Date:1974-05-07
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
Volkswagen: Operários na Alemanha e no Brasil
Follows the work routine of two Volkswagen employees, one in Germany one in Brazil.
Release Date:1974-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
O Homem Que Descobriu o Nu Invisível
Release Date:1973-05-14
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
O Fabuloso Fittipaldi
Documentary about race car driver Emerson Fittipaldi
Release Date:1973-01-01
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
O Picapau Amarelo
The Viscount of Sabugosa is locked in the library writing an encyclopedia about the characters in children's fables. Dona Benta receives a letter from little Thumb, written on a rose petal, in which he, realizing that the inhabitants of the world of fables are forgotten in the books on the shelves, requests that everyone live in Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. Emília and the children love the idea, and Dona Benta says yes. They move
Release Date:1973-01-01
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
Vote Count:1
De Raízes e Rezas, Entre Outros
Release Date:1972-07-22
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
Pantanal
Release Date:1971-01-01
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Bexiga, Ano Zero
A brief look at the traditional Bexiga, am important neighborhood in the early 20th century with the massive arrival of Italian immigrants who felt at home while developing their businesses and generating a great economy to São Paulo. But in the second half of the century the families of means left the place; others were evicted due to a government crisis...and then with plenty of empty houses and spaces Bexiga became a spot for home invasions from poor families who were living under the streets.
Release Date:1971-01-01
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Audácia!
Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.
Release Date:1970-08-10
Vote Count:1
Viva Cariri
The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region.
Release Date:1970-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
The Prophet of Hunger
The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.
Release Date:1969-06-13
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
Vote Count:10
Copacabana Fools Me
Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.
Release Date:1969-03-10
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Vote Count:3
Compasso de Espera
Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.
Release Date:1969-01-01
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:3
Hitler in the Third World
Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.
Release Date:1968-01-01
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
Vote Count:5
Embu
Release Date:1968-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Auf der Suche nach dem Glück
In 8 miniatures, the search for happiness is approached from a different angle. Can you have a guinea pig as a husband? Can horses survive on Venus? How do you live with an alien woman?
Release Date:1967-12-29
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Fundevogel
Fragments of fairy tales alternate with observations of children. Documentary and staged sequences are combined. There is no break and no contrast between reality, the children's behavior and the imagination; they merge into one another.
Release Date:1967-01-01
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Caminhos de Valderez
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography