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Júlio Bressane

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Composer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn February 13, 1946 (79 years)
Júlio Eduardo Bressane de Azevedo (Rio de Janeiro, February 13, 1946 ) is a Brazilian filmmaker and writer.

A representative of the Brazilian Cinema Marginal, he began making films as an assistant director of Walter Lima Jr., in 1965. In 1967, Bressane debuted as director with Face to Face, being selected for the Festival of Brasilia. In 1970, he founded Belair Movies in company with fellow filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla. They chose a model of making films and low-cost production and thereby managed to run six feature films in just six months.

He came into exile in London in the early 1970s, but returned to Brazil several years later and made one film after another, using slapstick and debauchery as its main features. An acclaimed film of this period was the provocative Tabu, released in 1982. Critics consider Bressane the most scholarly of the Brazilian film directors, and his work is notable for the diversity of its narrative language. Another feature of his filmography is the comprehensive approach to historical and literary characters. He is also noted by his low-budget, short-time shootings, with an average of 11 to 14 days to make and edit a film.

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Known For

  • Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
  • Days of Nietzsche in Turin
  • A Love Movie
  • The Herb of the Rat
  • Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
  • Cleópatra
  • Sentimental Education
  • Copacabana Mon Amour
  • Bedouin
  • Capitu and the Chapter
  • Plantation Boy
  • The Mandarin
  • O Rei do Baralho

Júlio Bressane Filmography

2023
2020
2019
A Mulher da Luz Própria · as Self (archive Footage)
2017
2016
O País do Cinema (TV Series) · as Self
2013
2000
1992
1982
Tabu · as Self
1978
Horror Palace Hotel · as Himself

2023
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus · as Original Music Composer
2018
2016
Bedouin · as Composer
1985
Brás Cubas · as Composer
1973

2023
A Rainha da Noite · as O Espectro
2015
2011
2009
1986
1985
Brás Cubas · as Film Director
1978
1972

1991
1982
Tabu · as Director Of Photography
1978
Agonia · as Production Designer
1978
Agonia · as Costume Design
1973
O Rei do Baralho · as Production Designer
1967
Face to Face · as Screenstory
1966
1966
1965
Plantation Boy · as Costume Designer
1965
Plantation Boy · as Assistant Director

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