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Titre original :

Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova

Durée :

0h 24min

Date de sortie :

January 1968

Réalisé par : Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Jean-Claude Bernardet
Ecrit par : Luís Saia, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Jean-Claude Bernardet

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)