Jorge Bodanzky
Jorge Bodanzky (São Paulo, December 22, 1942) is a Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter and photographer.
Works
Once Upon a Time There Was Iracema
A making-of directed by Bodanzky himself, the documentary discusses the language of the film Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica 30 years after it was made, gathering interviews with the authors, actors, critics and the filmmakers themselves.
Release Date2005-07-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
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 Date2024-04-23
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Charactersd Self / Narrator (voice)
Rito do Amor Selvagem
Release Date2019-09-04
Charactersd Self
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 Date2020-09-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Charactersd Self
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 Date2018-07-19
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
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 Date2020-10-22
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
As Cores e Amores de Lore
Directed by Jorge Bodanzky, As Cores e Amores de Lore tells the story of German painter Eleonore Koch, Volpi's only disciple who, having settled in Brazil since World War II, lived freely and intensely, always dedicated to her art. Based on a series of meetings that the director had with the painter, the film portrays the last years of her life.
Release Date2025-02-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Viva Cariri
The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region.
Release Date1970-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
arte 360° Reportage
Stories of extraordinary lives and extraordinary lands across the globe.
Release Date1999-01-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
O Fabuloso Fittipaldi
Documentary about race car driver Emerson Fittipaldi
Release Date1973-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Pantanal
Release Date1971-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
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 Date2021-02-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
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 Date1969-03-10
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count3
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 Date1973-01-01
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Vote Count1
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 Date1975-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Clepsuzana
Release Date1969-12-31
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Ôrí
A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.
Release Date1989-05-02
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count4
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 Date1969-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count4
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 Date1979-04-19
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
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 Date1968-01-01
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Vote Count5
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 Date1970-06-13
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Vote Count11
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 Date1981-08-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
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 Date1971-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Caminhos de Valderez
Release Date1971-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1967-12-29
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
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 Date2020-11-26
DepartmentCamera
JobStill Photographer
Vote Count15
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 Date1979-05-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
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 Date1986-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1976-06-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count25
À Margem do Concreto
Documentary about homeless people squatting in São Paulo, Brazil.
Release Date2007-03-02
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
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 Date1991-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Folias do Divino
Release Date1974-05-07
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Amazônia, a Nova Minamata?
Release Date2022-10-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Eterna Esperança: Sem Pressa e Sem Pausa, Como as Estrelas
A documentary of profound irony about the bourgeois dream of establishing a film industry in Brazil in the 1930s. The project in question, the Companhia Americana de Filmes, went bankrupt before finishing its only film, which was called 'Eterna Esperança' (Eternal Hope).
Release Date1971-12-31
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Pandemonium
Release Date2010-06-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Sociologia da Crise
The documentary questions the knowledge of sociology in the face of the crises of the contemporary world. Experts in the subject discuss and evaluate the usefulness of this discipline and propose new ways for its application.
Release Date2011-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Gamal, O Delírio do Sexo
Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own words: “a fable where realism and logic have no place, and in which sex is a translation of all the tortures, circumstances and violent actions.”
Release Date1970-12-14
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
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 Date2015-10-09
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Embu
Release Date1968-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
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 Date2009-12-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Em Cada Coração um Punhal
A woman asks her boyfriend for his mother's heart as a proof of love. Another, a kleptomaniac, has an affair with a TV professional. And a young man becomes a sex symbol after an advertising campaign.
Release Date1970-03-12
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Industriearbeiter in Deutschland – Industriearbeiter in Brasilien
A parallel of the life and work of two Volkswagen workers, one in Brazil and the other in Germany, who perform identical functions in assembling the VW Beetle.
Release Date1974-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
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 Date1967-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
A Semana de Arte Moderna
Release Date1968-12-31
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Brasília em Super 8
Release Date1970-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2019-07-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
De Raízes e Rezas, Entre Outros
Release Date1972-07-22
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Um Olhar Inquieto: o Cinema de Jorge Bodanzky
Release Date2025-04-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2006-04-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
O Homem Que Descobriu o Nu Invisível
Release Date1973-05-14
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector 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 Date1970-08-10
Vote Count1