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IMDb
Rating
7.5/10
Release1968
Runtime0h 24m
StatusReleased
BudgetN/A
RevenueN/A
Production
Filmes do Serro
Movie

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

1968
0h 24m
7.5
Documentary

Synopsis

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)

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