UM HOMEM SÉRIO (A Serious Man)

(35 mm, 18 min, color, 1996)

FULL CAST AND CREW

CAST

Ari Franca (Hilario Pestana)
Francisco Milani (narration)
Oscar Simch (manager)
Leverdogil de Freitas (Werner)
Sandra Dani (Jocasta/stage)
Marley Danckwardt (Jocasta/movie)
Claudio Heemann (psicanalista)
Tatiana Soares (Ophelia)
Denise Ovadia (blonde)
Antonio Carlos Falcao (patient)

Special Appearance:
Tania Carvalho (Helo)

Gilberto Verardi (radio interviewer)
Ze Vitor Castiel (priest)
Luciano Mallmann (audience 1)
Joao Wolmir (audience 2)
Daniela Schmitz (audience 3)
Zeca Kiechaloski (audience 4)
Lisa Becker (audience 5)
Tatiana Silveira (audience 6)
Abramo Petry (funeral 1)
Amora Marzulo (funeral 2)
Arthur Pinto (funeral 3)
Eleonora Rizzo (funeral 4)
Giovana Figueiredo (funeral 5)
Tuti Gregianin (funeral 6)
Jose Roberto Torero (funeral 7)
Mirna Spritzer (funeral 8)
Patsy Cecato (funeral 9)
Cleo de Paris (clapperboard man)
Marco Fronckoviack (boom man)
Joao Franca (cowboy)
Lauro Ramalho (male nurse)
Magda Beatriz (mulata)
Auri Amaral (mulata's husband)
Arthur Mallet (guard 1)
Emerson Morello (guard 2)

CREW

Director: Dainara Toffoli
/ Diego de Godoy
Written by: Jose Roberto Torero
/ Gustavo Cascon
/ Dainara Toffoli
Adapted from the short story
/ "Um Homem Celebre"
/ by Machado de Assis
Executive Producers: Nora Goulart
/ Luciana Tomasi
Cinematographer: Alex Sernambi
Art Directors: Denise Zelmanovitz
/ Ênio Ortiz
Production Manager: Marco Baiotto
Editor: Paulo Sacramento
Assistant Directors: Ana Luiza Azevedo
/ Márcia Baldissera

Costumes by: Rosangela Cortinhas
Sound Editors and Sound Re-recording Mixers: Kito Siqueira
/ Quinho
2nd Assistant Director: Márcia Baldissera
Property Master: Eduardo Feijó
Production Assistants: Dennison Ramalho
/ Rodrigo Mondin
Casting by: Cynthia Caprara
Make-up by: Luis Carlos Jamonot
Make-up Assistant: Ana Denise Kuhn
Costumes Assistant: Beto Zambonato
Sound Mixer: Cleber Neutzling
Boom Operator: Jeferson Martins
Assistant Camera: Newland Silva
2nd Assistant Camera: Juliano Lopes
Still Photographer: Fernanda Chemale
Additional Cinematographer: Kátia Coelho
Additional Assistant Camera: Lula Maluf
Additional 2nd Assistant Camera: Onairo Silva
Titles: Malu Dias Marques
Telecine Operator: Gerson Silva
Set Technicians: Cléber Dalla Vechia
/ Nana Lorscheider
Set Assistants: Andréa Santos da Costa
/ Orlando Costa
/ Seu Marquinhos
Electricians: Nilo Lima Silva
/ Lauro Muniz
/ Marcelo Rebelo
Video Cameras: Jorge Lopes
/ Pedro Olavo Jardim
Drivers: Chico
/ Edson
/ Eduardo
/ Luis
Catering: Fonso Braz

MUSICIANS

Music by: Kito Siqueira
Arrangements: Kito Siqueira
/ Tiago Costa
"Chanchada Theme"
Music by: Leo Henkin
Lyrics: Jose Roberto Torero

SUPPLIERS

Film Stock: Kodak Eastmancolor 5298, 5287, 5247, 7231
Image Lab: Curt-Alex
Telecine: Casablanca
Avid Edition: Compact
Sound Studio: Bat Produções

FINANCING

4th Iecine Prize (1995)
/ RS Government - APTC
Production: Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre
Co-Production: CTAv - Funarte

HISTORY

Filmed in Porto Alegre, from 20 to 25, April 1996.
Premiére at the Gramado Festival, August 10, 1996.
10/08/1996