Cinema
Sonho sem fim
Lauro Escorel Filho · 1986
Synopsis
Eduardo Abelim, a young gaúcho, goes up to Rio de Janeiro hoping to make films there. The attempt comes to nothing and his friends mock him; he returns to his State to found his own production company, Gaúcha Film, according to the Correio da Manhã. To make his films known, he performs car stunts, gives lectures on the occult and dispenses advice on mystical subjects.
Context
The film retraces the life of Eduardo Abelim, born in 1900 in Cachoeira do Sul according to a Rio daily, one of the pioneers of the cinema of his State, after whom a trophy of the Gramado festival is now named. It runs from his beginnings in Rio to the filming of the 1930 revolution, taking poetic liberties with the facts. The director said he had been drawn to this “melancholic, poetic and persistent” trajectory, in which he saw what making cinema in Brazil meant. Carlos Alberto Riccelli plays the lead, alongside Débora Bloch and Marieta Severo.
Who it is for
A ninety-three-minute film, in Portuguese, centred on a single character and on the early days of cinema in the south of Brazil.
Prizes and reception
Special Jury Prize at the Gramado festival in 1986; the film is now offered by a Brazilian cinema platform.
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