Elke Maravilha

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Feb 22, 1945 (80 years old)
Death date
Aug 16, 2016

Elke Maravilha

Known For

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
1h 48m
Movie 2021

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.

Chacrinha: Eu Vim para Confundir e Não para Explicar
1h 28m
Movie 2021

Chacrinha: Eu Vim para Confundir e Não para Explicar

Chacrinha's legacy on TV and excerpts from his personal life are revealed through testimonials and archive images, which tell the story behind the cameras, the behind the scenes that consolidated a new way of communicating Brazil and the facets of a man who is one of the most interesting contemporary characters on the national cultural scene.

Moon in Sagittarius
1h 40m
Movie 2016

Moon in Sagittarius

Ana (Manuela Campagna) is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a border town between Brazil and Argentina. There, she has no leisure options and no internet access. Your only refuge is to visit a tallow / lanhouse known as "The Cave". It is there that, one day, she ends up meeting Murilo (Fagundes Emanuel), the boy she will fall in love with.

Carrossel 2: O Sumiço de Maria Joaquina
1h 33m
Movie 2016

Carrossel 2: O Sumiço de Maria Joaquina

The children are invited by a Brazilian music star to one of his shows. But the trip turns into a nightmare when the villains Gonzales and Gonzalito, recently released from prison, decide to kidnap Maria Joaquina.

Super Oldboy
0h 13m
Movie 2016

Super Oldboy

Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at the bank. One day he gets involved in an unusual bank robbery.

Copyleft
0h 30m
Movie 2015

Copyleft

Obsessed with a heteronormative identity, Pendro confronts himself with an image that doesn’t represent who he is. On this search performed by him, the marks of violence start appearing all over his vulnerable young body.

Minas Texas
1h 11m
Movie 1989

Minas Texas

In a country town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Januária is going to marry the shy and naive Amorim. But in her heart she wants to escape with her dream hero, the cowboy Roy Pereira, and start a new life in Texas.

Heirs of the House of Usher
0h 45m
Movie 1988

Heirs of the House of Usher

In 1947, Edgar went to visit Usher and his sister Lady Madeleine. He find out that coursed still living in the house after Usher rebuild it. Based on the novel of Edgar Allan Poe.

Tanga (Deu no New York Times?)
1h 30m
Movie 1987

Tanga (Deu no New York Times?)

The dictator of a small Caribbean island receives the New York Times daily, sent by a nephew. Through the newspaper, he gets in touch with the world. Guerrilla groups try to neutralize this information system.

Biography

Elke Grünupp, known by her stage name Elke Maravilha (Leutkirch im Allgäu, February 22, 1945 – Rio de Janeiro, August 16, 2016), was a German-Brazilian model, judge, presenter and actress. She began to act as a model and mannequin at the age of 24, working with famous stylists of the time and was considered an innovator on the catwalks. Initially discreet, over time she made room for her extravagance.

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