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Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (Portuguese: Garrincha - Alegria do Povo) is a 1962 Brazilian documentary film directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, about the Brazilian football player Garrincha. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.
Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle is a 1962 Brazilian documentary film directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, about the Brazilian football player Garrincha. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.
Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (Portuguese: Garrincha - Alegria do Povo) is a 1962 Brazilian documentary film directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, about the Brazilian soccer player Garrincha. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.
Directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade. Year: 1963. Country: Brazil. Language: Portuguese with English subtitles. Synopsis. Cast & Crew. Garrincha - the nickname of the Brazilian soccer star Manuel Francisco dos Santos - immediately evokes his creativity in the field and his famously crooked legs.
One of the earliest works by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, a key figure in Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement, Garrincha offers a stunning depiction of the country in the early 1960s. Moving beyond soccer, the film explores Garrincha’s career alongside the longstanding national passion for the sport.
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Brazil, 1963, 35mm, 60 min., b&w, Portuguese w/ English subtitles. Andrade’s feature debut is a documentary portrait of a celebrated soccer player who owes his wondrous abilities to his peculiar physiology – one of his legs is bent inward and the other curves outward. Moving in strange ways, with broken rhythms ...
Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (Portuguese: Garrincha - Alegria do Povo) is a 1962 Brazilian documentary film directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, about the Brazilian soccer player Garrincha.It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival In 2006, the documentary was selected as part of a special section of the 63rd Venice ...
