(Barbosa)
(35 mm, 13 min, color, 1988)
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Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup,
a man goes back in time in order to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil,
destroyed his childhood dreams and finished the carrier of goalkeeper Barbosa.
PHOTO by
Sérgio Amon:
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Director: Jorge Furtado and Ana Luiza Azevedo
Written by:
Jorge Furtado, Ana Luiza Azevedo and Giba Assis Brasil
Cinematographer:
Sérgio
Amon
Art Director:
Fiapo
Barth
Music by:
Geraldo
Flach
Production
Coordinator: Nora Goulart and Gisele Hiltl
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant
Director: Betty Perrenoud
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
Antônio
Fagundes (the traveller)
Pedro Santos
(the assistant)
Zé Vitor
Castiel (the doorkeeper)
Ariel Nehring
(the boy)
Abel Borba
(the father)
Prizes
16th
Gramado Film Festival, 1988:
Best Editing,
Best Editing of Regional Film, Best Screenplay of Regional Film.
21st
Brasilia Film Festival, 1988:
Best Screenplay.
11th
Guarnicê of Cine-Video, São Luis, 1988:
Best Original
Story, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Official Jury Award.
10th
Latinoamerican Film Festival, Havana, Cuba, 1988:
Best Fiction
Short Film.
Reviews
"Underpinned by Sérgio Amon's 'illuminated' photography, BARBOSA
has a fantastic original story. Fiapo Barth's art direction brings the
Rio de Janeiro of 1950 to the Porto Alegre of 1988, and it is convincing.
A challenge met by the crew, and by the directors. The will to change the
course of History is present there. Would Brazil be different with a victory
of the Brazilian team in the 1950 World Cup?"
(Glênio
Póvoas, DIÁRIO DO SUL, Porto Alegre, 25-26/06/88)
"The art of movement and the art of heroes, solitary and ritualistic at
the same time, film and football never came together in such a full dimension
as in GARRINCHA ALEGRIA DO POVO and in BARBOSA. (...) Capable of transporting
the spectator to the heart of that anguish, reviving the emotion of a defeat
suffered 40 years ago, BARBOSA is as much a work of its time as was Joaquim
Pedro's GARRINCHA. BARBOSA is born out of the failure of utopia (the narrator/character
says 'that defeat was the sign that nothing would turn out right in this
country'). Made at a time in Brazil, when not even football is doing well
(...), this short symptomatically rescues an knot in our history which
may well have been our only moment as a nation."
(David França
Mendes, TABU, Rio de Janeiro, September/88)
"BARBOSA is born a classic. Inspired in the book ANATOMIA DE UMA DERROTA
/ ANATOMY OF A DEFEAT, where Paulo Perdigão purged himself of the
Brazilian defeat in the 1950 World Cup, they created a chilling plot. What
if a grown up man, tortured since childhood by the failure he had witnessed
in Maracanã Stadium, managed to go back to the past to prevent Ghiggia
from scoring that fateful goal? The outcome of this cathartic illusion
is disturbing, to say the least."
(Amir Labaki,
FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO, 19/09/88)
"The historical scene in black and white shows Brazilian goalkeeper Barbosa
rising to his feet in desolation after what sports commentators considered
his failure. Tragedy. (...) The fatal moment and its consequences in the
mind of the goalkeeper is the great theme, made into a moving short film
(...) The surprising photography marks the beats of the heart, in black
and white and in color. A consistent and transparent short. A small masterpiece."
(Rubens Araújo,
JORNAL DE BRASÍLIA, 28/10/88)
"One of the most communicative and original Brazilian shorts in recent
times. It is a film where everything works to perfection, from screenplay
to cast. Unforgettable also are the impeccable editing, the surprising
use of video and the integration of fiction and documentary."
(Sérgio
Bazi, CORREIO BRASILIENSE, Brasília, 28/10/88)
Available versions
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| 35mm in portuguese |
35mm with english subtitles |
35mm with spanish subtitles |
16mm in portuguese |
DVD with multilingual subtitles ("Curtas da Casa") |
VHS in portuguese ("Historias do Pais") |
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