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  1. Alegres Comadres, As (2003 Film)

    aka: Merry Wives, The

    Director
    Leila Hipólito
    Producer
    Roberto Bakker; Leila Hipólito; Isabelle Tanugi

    Feature film based on The Merry Wives of Windsor. A pair of respectable housewives look for revenge when they are seduced and robbed by an ex-soldier and his two friends.

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  2. Sete Minutos (2003 Film)

    Director
    Bibi Ferreira

    Comedy. The story of a theatrical company and what happens in a staging of Macbeth. One night the actor playing Macbeth, interrupts the performance after he hears a cell phone ringing in the audience. From...

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  3. Cravo e a Rosa, O (2000 Television)

    Director
    Walter Avancini; Bandarra. Mario Marcio; Armora Mautner; Ivan Zetel
    Producer
    Denis Carvalho

    Brazilian soap opera. Romantic comedy loosely re-working the themes of The Taming of the Shrew. Set in Rio de Janiero, the soap tells the story of a 20-year-old independent woman and Petruchio who believes...

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  4. Otello de Oliviera (1984 Television)

    Director
    Paulo Alfonso Grisolli
    Producer
    Paulo Alfonso Grisolli

    Feature film. A version of Othello transported to a shanty town section of Rio de Janeiro. Otelo is the leader of a samba band, Emilia an agreeable black woman, Cassio a guitar player, Iago provides a black...

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  5. Hamlet (1975 Film)

    Director
    Jose Rubens Siqueira

    Brazilian animation film. ‘Circus child already has to deal with Hamlet’s question: "To Be or Not To Be". [Summary taken from IMDb]. No further information found.

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  6. Jago Da Vida e Da Morte, O (1971 Film)

    Director
    Mario Kuperman
    Producer
    Silvio Renoldi

    Feature film offering an interpretation of Hamlet set in contemporary Sao Paolo. Joao (Cruz) discovers through a spiritual medium that his uncle Claudio has killed his father in a bid to gain control of the...

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  7. A Heranca (1970 Film)

    Director
    Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

    Feature film loosely based on Hamlet. Omeleto, the son of a rich farmer, returns home after his father’s death and is unhappy to find his mother married to his uncle. He is love with a poor black girl,...

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  8. Barravento (1961 Film)

    aka: Tempest, The

    Director
    Glauber Rocha
    Producer
    Brag Neto; Rex Schindler

    Feature film. loosely based on The Tempest directed by Glauber Rocha. Concerns the efforts of Firmino, part revolutionary, part devil, to free the fishermen in his native Bahian village from capitalist...

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