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Roberto Moreira



Filmography
1992 A Princesa Radar (short film)
2002 O Cao Louco Mµrio Pedrosa (short film)
2004 Contra Todos / Up Against Them All



Roberto Moreira is a drama teacher at ECA-USP¢s Higher Audiovisual Studies course. He has written and directed short films which participated in festivals in Italy, Sweden, Germany and Brazil. He received, together with Jean-Claude Bernardet, the Best Screenplay Award at the Bras£lia Festival 96 for the feature length film A Starry Sky, directed by Tata Amaral. Up Against Them All is his first feature film.
 
Brazilian Cinema

Up Against Them All / Roberto Moreira


In a barren district on the outskirts of Sao Paulo we find Teodoro and his teenage daughter, Soninha, living with Claudia,Teodoro¢s second wife.Teodoro makes a living as a hired gun, beats his rebellious daughter Soninha and has an affair with Terezinha. Claudia has an affair with Julio, son of the neighborhood butcher. Orbiting about them is Waldomiro,Teodoro¢s old friend and partner and Soninha¢s object of desire.Things are triggered off by the murder of Julio.



Direction: Roberto Moreira
Sceenplay: Roberto Moreira
Cinematography: Adrian Cooper
Editing: Mirella Martinelli
Sound: Joao Godoy
Sets: Marjorie Gueller, Joana Porto
Costumes: Marjorie Gueller, Joana Porto
Music: Livio Tragtenberg
Cast: Leona Cavalli (Clµudia), S£lvia Lourenço (Soninha), Giulio Lopes (Teodoro), Ailton Graça (Waldomiro), Martha Meola (Terezinha)
Producer: Fernando Meirelles, Roberto Moreira, Ge½rgia Costa Ara¤jo, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Bel Berlinck
Production: Coraçao da Selva
  35mm Color 95¢
  Brazil



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