(Green years)
(35 mm, 91 min, color, 1984)
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Three days in the life of group of high school
kids, in 1972. Nando dates Soninha, who flirts with everybody. Robertão
is the master of ceremonies at the ball where the class queen will be chosen.
Teco is interested in Rita. Dudu edits a gossip paper. Pedro is the goalkeeper
of the class's team, and he is in love with the teacher. How long does
it take to go from adolescence to adulthood? A weekend, a few years or
your whole life?
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Directors: Carlos Gerbase and Giba Assis Brasil
Executive
Producer: Sérgio Lerrer
Written
by: Alvaro Luiz Teixeira
Cinematographer:
Christian
Lesage
Art Directors:
José
Artur Camacho and Marlise Storchi
Music by:
Nei
Lisboa and Nelson Coelho de Castro
Production
Coordinator: Rudi Lagemann
Editor:
Alpheu Ney Godinho
Assistant
Director: Alex Sernambi
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
Werner Schünemann
(Nando)
Marcos Breda
(Teco)
Luciene Adami
(Soninha)
Márcia
do Canto (Cândida)
Marta Biavaschi
(Rita)
Xala Felippi
(Marieta)
Marco Antônio
Sorio (Robertão)
Sérgio
Lulkin (Pedro)
Zé Tachenco
(Dudu)
Biratã
Vieira (Leopoldo)
Haydée
Porto (Bárbara)
Prizes
12th
Gramado Film Festival, 1984:
Special Jury
Prize.
Federation
of Cineclubs of Rio de Janeiro, 1985:
Special São
Saruê Award for the Production.
2nd
Caxambu Film Festival, 1985:
Best Screenplay
and Collective Acting Prize for the entire Cast.
Reviews
"One can feel the unity of the crew, from production itself (item reportedly
cost as little as $50,000, unbelievably low even by Brazilian standards)
to all steps of the filmmaking, including the acting. Under these circunstancies,
the directors have managed to create a number of funny and dramatic situations."
(Nelson Hoineff,
VARIETY, New York, 02/05/1984)
"You see GREEN YEARS the first time to give them some encouragement. After
all, they’re a bunch of kids, locals, no money, etc. The first laugh is
out of good will. The second, out of surprise. The third one, it’s out
of enthusiasm. The production' deficiencies are evident, but ten minutes
into the movie you have been won by its charm. But it is the second time
you see it that you will really like it."
(Luis Fernando
Verissimo, ZERO HORA, Porto Alegre, 22/05/84)
"DEU PRA TI ANOS 70 (Seventies, you're over) was the film of hope. INVERNO
(Winter) was the film of the resistance. VERDES ANOS (Green years) is the
dream. (...) Even in the films' endings there is a thematic coherence.
They all speak about the future, of continuing the struggle. In the tired
words of Werner Schünneman in WINTER, in the streets where Pedro Santos
walks in SEVENTIES... and in the lyrical ending of GREEN YEARS. This is
our cinema. The cinema made by young poets of everyday life, of the rain,
the cold and the fog."
(Goida, ZERO
HORA, Porto Alegre, 01/06/84)
"Prepare your hearts: this will hurt. Because nostalgia always hurts. Especially
here, on this trip back to the early seventies, in the sweet company of
these guys who, like me, loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, (...)
rolled a joint or two and believed blindly in peace and love. In GREEN
YEARS, the nightmare is still only a shadow, seen through the character
of the teacher. The rest are dreams. It is what we were. Boys and girls
who liked dating, playing football, fool about in the classroom, going
to dances, having idle chats, laughing about the dumbest things. The young
filmmakers reconstitute this 'greenness' with moving simplicity. (...)
They bring from the south an old, beautiful nostalgia that makes you cry."
(José
Márcio Penido, O ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO, 25/04/86)
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