Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, also known as Vianinha (Rio de Janeiro, June 4, 1936 — Rio de Janeiro, July 16, 1974), was a Brazilian playwright, communist activist, actor and director of theater and television. An active participant in Teatro de Arena, founder of the Centro Popular de Cultura da UNE and Grupo Opinião, his dramaturgy is marked by the exposure of Brazilian reality through the simple and hard-working man, in opposition to foreign cultural hegemony.
Helena, married to decorator Bruno, is a woman dissatisfied with the futility of social life. She rekindles her relationship with her former boyfriend, Clóvis, and discovers how difficult the struggle for happiness is by seeing the example of the less fortunate. After saving herself from the rough seas on the beach, Helena finds herself possessed by a mystical fear. On New Year's Eve, while the people celebrate Iemanjá, Helena and Bruno throw a lavish party. Their employee, Luiz, is arrested as a suspect in the death of a woman found on the beach. Having a disagreement with her husband, Helena leaves the party and throws herself into the sea. She is saved by Umbanda followers and welcomed by Bruno, who tries in vain to comfort her.
Release Date1967-06-30
Charactersd Clovis
Vote Count1
Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in 1960s Brazil, a journalist enters a personal crisis, aggravated by his affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son.
Release Date1965-07-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Marcelo
Vote Count11
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
Release Date1962-11-20
Charactersd (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")
Vote Count10
When a woman discovers her husband's infidelity, she decides to get divorced. But he still loves her, and learning that another guy has fallen for her, decides to change places with him. He would be the lover.
Release Date1958-01-01
Charactersd Sampaio
Vote Count1
A man, trying to get a job, meets a lot of unusual characters on his way.
Release Date1971-09-30
Charactersd Flávio
Vote Count2
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.
Release Date2019-05-15
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
In Esdras Baptista's film archives, kept at his home for decades, one can feel the fervor of those who believed in a new tomorrow. Filmed in Brazil in the early 1960s, in the heat of a libertarian political movement, the filmmaker's images materialize the incandescence of collective desires at the historic moment of their emergence. Utopia, though unattainable, is never a mere abstraction. A force that mobilizes actions and feelings, it constitutes the impetus necessary for human existence.
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
The daily lives of a typical Brazilian middle-class family, that are always very close and tries, in their way, to survive the financial and relationship difficulties.
Release Date2001-03-29
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Series Creator
Episode Count485
Vote Count40
Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.
Release Date2000-12-26
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Release Date1971-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Release Date1972-10-26
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.
Release Date2018-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobTheatre Play
Vote Count13
Old couple are being evicted and turn to their five children for help. Since no one can accommodate the two of them, the children decide to separate the couple.
Release Date1971-04-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Tatá is a typical Rio de Janeiro guy, easy living, hedonistic, living in an apartment in one of those buildings where everything goes, in Copacabana, near the beach. One day a beautiful new neighbor, Teresa, moves into the apartment in front of his, and he falls in love.
Release Date1974-06-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
The story of the first steps of a very young couple. Their love is great, as are the financial obstacles and an unexpected pregnancy.
Release Date1975-05-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Erotic comedy in five segments, starring the same actor, Chico Anysio: O Torneio (The Tournament), A Boca (The Mouth), O Filminho (The Short Film), A Suspeita (The Suspicion) and O Apartamento (The Apartment).
Release Date1971-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
An elderly couple, Dona Lu and Seu Souza, live in the district of Paty do Alferes, in a simple little house where they raised their children. When the tenant dies, the landlord's heirs evicted the couple, and it is up to the four children to decide their future.
Release Date1983-06-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of finding a potential partner to marry in order to avoid her return to that place.
Release Date1963-12-21
Vote Count1
Release Date1987-09-14
Vote Count1
Release Date1970-06-26
Vote Count1
A long time public servant is told by an angel that he will die at midnight of the following day.
Release Date1969-05-22
Vote Count1
A man, arrested and tortured physically and psychologically because of a confession he refuses to give, reverses the situation of victim and desperately tries to liquidate the gang that imprisoned him.
Release Date1967-03-28
Vote Count1
