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Iracema is one of the three indigenous novels by José de Alencar. It was first published in 1865.
The story revolves around the relationship between the Tabajara indigenous woman, Iracema; and the Portuguese colonist, Martim, who was allied with the Tabajara nation's enemies, the Pitiguaras.
Through the novel Alencar tries to remake the history of the Brazilian colonial state of Ceará's origins, with Moacir, the son of Iracema and Martim, as the first true Brazilian in Ceará. This pure Brazilian is born from the love of the natural, innocence (Iracema) and culture and knowledge (Martim), and also represents the mixture (miscegenation) of the native race with the European race to produce a new (Brazilian) race.
Its name is Guarani language for honey-lips, from ira - honey, and tembe - lips. Tembe changed to ceme, as in the word ceme iba, according to the author.
Iracema is also an anagram to America, appointed by critics as fitting to the allegorization of colonization of America by Europeans, the novel's main theme.
Adoniran Barbosa, artistic name of João Rubinato (6 August 1910, Valinhos - 23 November 1982, São Paulo), was a famous Brazilian São Paulo style samba singer and composer.
João Rubinato was the seventh child of Emma and Ferdinando Rubinato, Italian immigrants from Cavarzere (province of Venice). His parents had settled in Valinhos, a rural town in the state of São Paulo, about 70 km from the city of São Paulo. In 2010, two bridges were named after Rubinato: one located in Valinhos, Brazil, where the singer was born, and another in Cavarzere, Italy, where his parents came from.
He is said to have been a rather reluctant student, and started working at an early age (which required falsifying his birth date). His first job was a sweeper boy and general helper at a railway company in the nearby town of Jundiaí. In 1924 he moved to Santo André, a town in the Greater São Paulo area, where he went through many jobs — loom operator, painter, plumber, iron worker, peddler and waiter. At a local technical school (the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios) he learned the office of mechanical assistant.
Ana Carolina da Fonseca (born October 25, 1978) is a Brazilian-American actress, television personality and model.
She was born in São Paulo, Brazil to Portuguese parents. She moved to the United States at age 12.
She is fluent in Spanish and English, as well as her native Portuguese.
Da Fonseca has made numerous television appearances as herself, including as the model and presenter on the television series El Blablazo and its spin-offs, which aired on the broadcast-television network Univision from 1998 to 2001. She also appeared as Celeste in the telenovela Te Amaré en Silencio (2003) opposite Eduardo Yáñez. In 2010, she had a supporting role in the telenovela Eva Luna.
Actors: Fisher Stevens (actor), Herson Capri (actor), Irène Jacob (actress), Charlotte Rampling (actress), Bill Pullman (actor), Philippe Carcassonne (producer), Flávio R. Tambellini (producer), Santiago Amigorena (producer), Mark T. Elliott (miscellaneous crew), Patrick Breen (actor), Jean-Marc Roulot (actor), Jérôme Kircher (actor), Sophie Brunet (editor), Lúcia Murat (actress), Jonathan Nossiter (director),
Plot: A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's sensual beaches. Seeking self fulfillment, they are looking for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.
Keywords: beach, male-frontal-nudity, strangerActors: Henrique Martins (director), Aldine Muller (actress), Jonas Bloch (actor), Caridad Bravo Adams (writer), Caridad Bravo Adams (writer), Rogério Márcico (actor), Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva (actress), Jacques Lagôa (director), Vera Zimmerman (actress), Danton Mello (actor), Tássia Camargo (actress), Clarisse Abujamra (actress), Bia Seidl (actress), Marcos Wainberg (actor), David Grimberg (producer),
Genres: Romance,Actors: José Wilker (actor), Carlos Diegues (actor), Sonia Braga (miscellaneous crew), Ney Latorraca (actor), Marilia Carneiro (costume designer), Louise Cardoso (actress), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (actor), Cláudio Mamberti (actor), Betty Faria (actress), Diogo Vilela (actor), Luiz Carlos Lacerda (director), Luiz Carlos Lacerda (producer), Luiz Carlos Lacerda (writer), Edson Celulari (actor), Marcelia Cartaxo (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Romance, War,Actors: Joana Fomm (actress), Paulo Betti (actor), Louise Cardoso (actress), Maria Lúcia Dahl (actress), Anselmo Vasconcelos (actor), Antonio Abujamra (actor), Antônio Petrin (actor), Roberto Bomtempo (actor), David Tygel (composer), José Joffily (writer), José Joffily (director), Jorge Durán (writer), Maria Luísa Mendonça (actress), José Louzeiro (writer), Vera Freire (editor),
Plot: The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film _Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981)_ (qv). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, he got involved with crime.
Keywords: actor, based-on-book, criminal, male-frontal-nudity, police-officer-killed, police-violenceActors: Eva Wilma (actress), Dennis Carvalho (director), Carlos Zara (actor), Nildo Parente (actor), Carlos Kroeber (actor), Marieta Severo (actress), Rodrigo Santoro (actor), Tarcísio Meira (actor), Stepan Nercessian (actor), José Lewgoy (actor), Gianfrancesco Guarnieri (actor), Nuno Leal Maia (actor), Cláudio Corrêa e Castro (actor), Odete Lara (actress), Ivan Cândido (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Rogério Fróes (actor), Dennis Carvalho (director), Joana Fomm (actress), Júlia Lemmertz (actress), Antonio Pedro (actor), Fernanda Torres (actress), Cláudio Corrêa e Castro (actor), Marcos Paulo (actor), Ewerton de Castro (actor), Anselmo Vasconcelos (actor), Walmor Chagas (actor), Ney Latorraca (actor), Ênio Santos (actor), Francisco Cuoco (actor), Rosamaria Murtinho (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Joffre Soares (actor), Guillermo Battaglia (actor), Marcos Woinsky (actor), Marlene França (actress), Eliseo Subiela (director), Eliseo Subiela (writer), Arturo Puig (actor), José María Gutiérrez (actor), Jorge D'Elía (actor), Raúl Lavié (actor), Chela Ruíz (actress), Alicia Bruzzo (actress), Susana Lanteri (actress), Julio Di Risio (editor), Kátia D'Angelo (actress),
Plot: Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expecting to inherit a large sum of money, but instead, he receives from his father a treasure map, with the promise that the map will make him rich. After the father dies, Pablo decides to go to an adventure and seek the treasure, aided by the men his father choose as companionship, and by one woman faith choose for him.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Reginaldo Faria (producer), Carlos Kroeber (actor), Stepan Nercessian (actor), Waldemar Noya (editor), Reginaldo Faria (director), Reginaldo Faria (writer), Reginaldo Faria (actor), Roberto Farias (producer), Neuza Amaral (actress), Cristina Aché (actress), Maurício Nabuco (actor), Maurício Nabuco (producer), Camila Amado (actress), Fátima Freire (actress), Arthur Maia (actor),
Plot: Two young men in search of adventure meet Iracema, a bride who's been left waiting at the church. They give her a ride on their jeep, until they find the most strange family: a couple with seven girls and a son. According to popular tradition, a man born after seven girls is bound to become a werewolf.
Genres: Adventure,Actors: Paulo César Peréio (actor), Orlando Senna (producer), Orlando Senna (director), Orlando Senna (writer), Conceição Senna (actress), Jorge Bodanzky (writer), Jorge Bodanzky (editor), Jorge Bodanzky (director), Jorge Bodanzky (composer), Hermanno Penna (writer), Wolf Gauer (producer), Fernando Neves (actor), Achim Tappen (composer), Achim Tappen (producer), Eva Grundman (editor),
Plot: In the 70's, the fifteen years old whore Iracema meets the truck driver Sebastião, a.k.a. "Tião Brazil Grande", and travels with him along the Amazon Forest through Transamazônica, the longest Brazilian highway recently built by the military government to bring development to the area settling landless peasants. When Tião drops her on the road, Iracema is submitted to the most decadent types of prostitution to survive.
Keywords: amazon, amazonia, brazil, deforestation, ecology, environmental-destruction, forest, poverty, prostitution, road-movieActors: José de Alencar (writer), Vittorio Capellaro (actor), Vittorio Capellaro (producer), Vittorio Capellaro (writer), Vittorio Capellaro (director), Iracema de Alencar (actress), Alvaro Fonseca (actor), Leonel Simi (actor), Ernesto Crehneras (actor), Georgina N. Cappelaro (actress),
Genres: Drama,