Jorge Amado
Writing
Born August 10, 1912 in Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
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 differences. He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. He won the 1984 International Nonino Prize in Italy. He also was Federal Deputy for São Paulo as a member of the Brazilian Communist Party between 1947 and 1951.
Filmography
3 Obás de Xangô
Self (archive footage)
Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi
Self (archive footage)
Tieta do Agreste
Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Self (archive footage)
Doña Flor y sus dos maridos
Dê Lembranças a Todos
Self
Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos
Dona Flor e Seus 2 Maridos - O Filme
The Duel: A Story Where Truth Is Mere Detail
The Miracle of the Birds
Gabriela
Captains of the Sands
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Self (archive footage)
Pastores da Noite
Port of Miracles
Brava Gente
Fallen Angels Paradise
Coralito y sus dos maridos
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Self
Dona Flor e Seus 2 Maridos
Tieta of Agreste
Ele Mesmo
Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
Self
Tocaia Grande
Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History
Self
Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History
Self
O Compadre de Ogum
Zona+
Próprio
Josué de Castro, Cidadão do Mundo
Looking Back at You
Self
Tereza Batista
Tieta
Jubiabá
Tenda dos Milagres
Gabriela
Kiss Me Goodbye
O Homem de Areia
Ele mesmo
Terras do Sem Fim
Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo
Jorge Amado no Cinema
Tent of Miracles
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Bahia
Gabriela
Apostrophes
Self
Bahia de Todos os Santos
Self
The Sandpit Generals
Le Grand Échiquier
Self - Main Guest
Bahia, For Example
Self
Seara Vermelha
The Wind Rose
Vendaval Maravilhoso
Terra Violenta