Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

Overview

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)

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1968

Original language

Portuguese

Spoken languages

Portuguese

Countries

Brazil

Production

Filmes do Serro

Cast

Ferreira Gullar

Director

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Writer

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade,Jean-Claude Bernardet,Luís Saia

Cinematography

Affonso Beato

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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