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Norma Bengell

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Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães d'Áurea Bengell (Rio de Janeiro, February 21, 1935 – Rio de Janeiro, October 9, 2013) was a Brazilian actress, filmmaker, producer, singer and songwriter. Considered one of the greatest muses of Brazilian cinema and theater in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Norma began her career in the early 1950s, being launched into the artistic world through revue theater by producer Carlos Machado. She acted in 64 films during her career, several of them in Europe.

21-09-1935

Birthday

Virgo

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

68

Total Films

Norma Benguell, Норма Венжель, Норма Бенгелл, Норма Бенгель

Also known as (female)

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

68 Works

producer

2 Works

director

13 Works

writer

3 Works

other

2 Works

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
9.0

Year:

2023

Dzi Croquettes

Dzi Croquettes

A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
7.6

Year:

2009

Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha

Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage.
5.0

Year:

2007

Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova

Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova

Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.
7.5

Year:

2005

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
5.8

Year:

2003

Banquete

Banquete

10.0

Year:

2002

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
0.0

Year:

1997

Vagas Para Moças de Fino Trato

Vagas Para Moças de Fino Trato

In Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse Madalena. Gertrudes misses and daydreams her former love and has a motherhood relationship with Lúcia; Madalena has a promiscuous life, having one night stand with the most different men every day and her behavior is criticized by Gertreudes; and Lúcia is dreamer that manipulates Gertrudes and expects that the handyman Alfredo becomes her prince charming. Their conflictive relationship ends when Madalena discloses their inner feelings and secrets to each other.
2.0

Year:

1993

The Colour of His Destiny

The Colour of His Destiny

Teenager and his Chilean parents live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exile, after his brother is killed by the military government in Chile. Years later, still haunted by the past, he undergoes a crisis when he learns his cousin had been arrested in Santiago, and quarrels with his family when he decides to know his country and the details of his past.
5.4

Year:

1987

Eternamente Pagu

Eternamente Pagu

Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic activist. An important figure of the Brazilian Modernism, Pagu was also a militant for the Brazilian Communist Party after she married writer Oswald de Andrade. She broke up with Andrade and, as a journalist was arrested by the Dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. After she left prison, she abandoned Communism in favor of Trotskyist Socialism, married Geraldo Ferraz, and started a career as theatre director.
6.2

Year:

1987

Running Out of Luck

Running Out of Luck

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.
5.8

Year:

1987

The Femme Fatale Meets the Ideal Man

The Femme Fatale Meets the Ideal Man

A poor woman is visited by the fairy godmother who turns her into a brilliant movie and TV star.
5.0

Year:

1987

Fonte da Saudade

Fonte da Saudade

0.0

Year:

1985

Tensão no Rio

Tensão no Rio

0.0

Year:

1984

O Filho Adotivo

O Filho Adotivo

0.0

Year:

1984

Tabu

Tabu

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade.
6.1

Year:

1983

Rio Babilonia

Rio Babilonia

A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.
5.3

Year:

1982

Nuclear Shelter

Nuclear Shelter

Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface.
6.4

Year:

1981

Eros, the God of Love

Eros, the God of Love

A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
5.0

Year:

1981

The Age of the Earth

The Age of the Earth

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's image: a black man, a soldier, an Indian, and a guerrilla fighter. These courageous individuals, hailed as the harbingers of doom in the tupiniquim lands, valiantly combat the insatiable avarice and oppressive "civilizing" brutality propagated by the formidable John Brahms—a foreign exploiter devoid of morals.
6.2

Year:

1980

Maria Gladys, Uma Atriz Brasileira

Maria Gladys, Uma Atriz Brasileira

The artistic career and daily life of actress Maria Gladys.
0.0

Year:

1979

Na Boca do Mundo

Na Boca do Mundo

A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafona. His biggest ambition is to stash enough money to leave to a big city with his fiancee, a mix-raced girl who sells fresh crabs to locals and wishes for a better life. When a rich white woman from the high society arrives to spend a few days away after ending a failed marriage, Antônio soon bonds with her and begins to change his plans.
4.3

Year:

1979

Freedom of Inês Etienne Romeu

Freedom of Inês Etienne Romeu

August 29, 1979, Talavera Bruce Penal Institute, Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. After serving eight years in prison, Inês Etienne Romeu, the only survivor of the "House of Death" in Petrópolis and the first political prisoner sentenced to life in prison in Brazil, left prison benefiting from Amnesty. Norma Bengell filmed this moment: from the prison door to her home with her family, Inês was welcomed by family, friends and members of the Brazilian Amnesty Committee, in what marked the first act of the historic denunciation that Inês would carry out against her tormentors and the Military Regime.
0.0

Year:

1979

Mulheres de Cinema

Mulheres de Cinema

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.
0.0

Year:

1978

Sea of Roses

Sea of Roses

A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.
6.4

Year:

1977

The Abyss

The Abyss

Man tries to decipher a manuscript about an ancient civilization and gets involved in strange situations. In fact, the plot is just an excuse to tackle the subjects of mysticism and human condition.
6.7

Year:

1977

Paranóia

Paranóia

Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.
0.0

Year:

1976

Défense de savoir

Défense de savoir

When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.
5.6

Year:

1973

The Suns of Easter Island

The Suns of Easter Island

Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
6.2

Year:

1972

The Demiurge

The Demiurge

A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada", Mautner says. He also affirms that the work focuses a lot on the longing for Brazil, on the will that the exiled had to return to their homeland. The idea came from conversations between the musician and his old father, "always talking about the pre-Socratics", he recalls. Glauber Rocha states that "The Demiurge" is the best film "of" and "about" exile.
5.7

Year:

1972

As Confissões de Frei Abóbora

As Confissões de Frei Abóbora

The loving adventures of a priest disillusioned with religion and life.
0.0

Year:

1971

Paixão na Praia

Paixão na Praia

5.0

Year:

1971

O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil

O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil

Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.
0.0

Year:

1971

The Murdered House

The Murdered House

Nina, a typical woman of the big city, marries a powerful farmer and goes to live in the countryside of Minas Gerais. There, however, she is faced with a decomposing, decadent family who seems to dislike her.
4.9

Year:

1971

Of Gods and the Undead

Of Gods and the Undead

In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in the battle for land and cacao plantations. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" Santana, taking his wife and money. He starts a bloody conflict, in which many simple people and landowners die.
5.6

Year:

1970

The Palace of Angels

The Palace of Angels

Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", securing money and success, but some problems as well.
5.6

Year:

1970

OSS 117 Takes a Vacation

OSS 117 Takes a Vacation

OSS 177 goes on holiday to Brazil, but is called into action when he finds himself being stalked by a double.
4.4

Year:

1970

The Angel Was Born

The Angel Was Born

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.
7.0

Year:

1969

O Último Homem

O Último Homem

0.0

Year:

1969

Before, the Summer

Before, the Summer

A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the breaches of the house, their marriage begins to crumble. And like a bad omen, a mysterious murder takes place in the vicinity.
6.3

Year:

1968

I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!

I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!

Don Ramon, a wealthy patron, receives his son back after he has sent him away to medical school, only to have him fall in love with his new young wife.
0.0

Year:

1968

Desesperato

Desesperato

Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leaves his home to carry out literary research in the country's most obscure settings. Unhappy with the current national situation, the historian joins a guerrilla force with serious consequences.
5.0

Year:

1968

Juventude e Ternura

Juventude e Ternura

The young singer Beth is torn between love for the honest pianist Guy; and the powerful smuggler Estênio, who sponsors his promising career.
0.0

Year:

1968

Edu, Coração de Ouro

Edu, Coração de Ouro

A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had managed to make him fall in love, until he met with mysterious Tatiana.
0.0

Year:

1968

A Espiã que Entrou em Fria

A Espiã que Entrou em Fria

A scientist discovers a breakthrough formula for harnessing nuclear energy and becomes the target for numerous secret agents around the world.
0.0

Year:

1967

Mar Corrente

Mar Corrente

0.0

Year:

1967

The Hellbenders

The Hellbenders

A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the Colonel plans to revive the Confederacy.
6.5

Year:

1967

As Cariocas

As Cariocas

6.0

Year:

1966

Planet of the Vampires

Planet of the Vampires

After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
6.5

Year:

1965

Violence and Love

Violence and Love

The nature of love and marriage is studied in two episodes.
0.0

Year:

1965

The Reckless

The Reckless

In the figure of Ettore Zambrini, a small industrialist with a dream of opening a factory overlooking the Autostrada del Sole, Montaldo offers us an effective narrative transposition of the 'animal spirits' that governed the economic boom in Italy at the time. He is a character of contradictory humanity: capable of handling business, overdue bills, trade union relations, marital betrayal, but also the passion that binds him to his wife with equal unscrupulousness.
5.4

Year:

1965

The Constancy of Reason

The Constancy of Reason

Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and family friend in love with Bruno's widowed mother Ivana — are an obstacle. His relationship with Lori, a beautiful and tormented young woman who has just returned from Milan, reshapes his convictions. Freely adapted from a minor novel by Vasco Pratolini.
6.1

Year:

1964

Men and Women

Men and Women

Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes, uncovering their anguish and deeper feelings, and the emptiness of their lives.
7.2

Year:

1964

I cuori infranti

I cuori infranti

Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.
6.0

Year:

1963

The Ballad of Husbands

The Ballad of Husbands

Giulio and Armando, both married, attempt an escape from their respective married lives, invent a secret mission and leaves for the south.
5.0

Year:

1963

Mafioso

Mafioso

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
7.5

Year:

1962

Carnival of Crime

Carnival of Crime

Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.
1.0

Year:

1962

The Given Word

The Given Word

Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross - like Jesus - all the way from his city to Saint Bárbara's church, in the state capital. Upon the recovery of his donkey, Zé leaves on his journey. He makes it to the church, but the priest refuses to accept the cross once he discovers the context of Zé's promise.
8.1

Year:

1962

The Unscrupulous Ones

The Unscrupulous Ones

Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.
6.3

Year:

1962

Mulheres & Milhões

Mulheres & Milhões

Three men who never met each other are hired by a mysterious client to carry out a daring bank robbery.
0.0

Year:

1961

Conceição

Conceição

0.0

Year:

1960

The Man of The Sputnik

The Man of The Sputnik

UFO falls on a hillbilly's hencoop and he tries to sell it. Soon international missions are sent to the place, for there's a suspicion it might be the famous Russian satellite, the Sputnik.
6.7

Year:

1959