Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (1968)

Documentary

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)

Updated May 30 2020

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Runtime: 24 mins Rating: 8.1

Cast

Ferreira Gullar

Narrator

Crew

Affonso Beato

Director of Photography

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Director

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Writer

Joel Barcellos

Production Director

Jean-Claude Bernardet

Assistant Director

Jean-Claude Bernardet

Writer

Renato Neumann

Editor

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