Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

1968
24m
7.7

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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)

Status: Released

Language: PT

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Production Information

Production Companies
Filmes do Serro
Production Countries
Brazil
Spoken Languages
Portuguese

Quick Facts

Original Title Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova
Release Date January 1, 1968
Status Released
Language PT
IMDb ID tt0210587

Cast

Ferreira Gullar
Ferreira Gullar

Narrator (voice)

Key Crew

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Director
Luís Saia
Writer
Jean-Claude Bernardet
Writer
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Writer