Jorge Amado
Birthday
1912/08/10
Day of death
2001/08/06 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
Also know as
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Biography
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differen...Read more
Acting
(2003) Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
as Self (archive footage)
(1993) Looking Back at You
as Self
(1974) Bahia de Todos os Santos
as Self
(1979) Jorge Amado no Cinema
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(1998) Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
as Self
(1969) Bahia, For Example
as Self
(1995) Aimé Césaire, Une voix pour l'histoire
as Self
(1996) Jorge Amado
as Self
(1989) Jorge Amado
as Ele mesmo
(2022) Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
as Self (archive footage)
(2023) Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1994) Josué de Castro, Cidadão do Mundo
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(1974) Na Casa de Rio Vermelho
as Self
(1996) Tieta of Agreste
as Ele Mesmo
(1982) O Homem de Areia
as Ele mesmo
(1981) Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo
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(2018) Dê Lembranças a Todos
as Self
(2024) 3 Obás de Xangô
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(2024) Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi
as Self (archive footage)
(2002) Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
as Self
(1994) Zona+
as Próprio
(2023) Xuxa, O Documentário
as Self (Archive footage)
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self - Main Guest
(1975) Apostrophes
as Self