Chaotic Brazilianness: opera, samba and German Christmas in the film Aleluia, Gretchen! (1976)

Authors

  • Rosane Kaminski

Abstract

This article discusses the links between cinema and history in 1970’s Brazil by analyzing the film Aleluia, Gretchen! (1976), directed by Sylvio Back. We focus on the power relations between Repo, a black servant, and Frau Lotte, his mistress. We establish a connection between the film and a few issues that were at the core of the cultural and political debates of its time, specifically the authoritarianism of the military government and its National Cultural Policy (Política Nacional de Cultura - PNC).

Keywords: cinema and history; Brazilian cinema; Sylvio Back.

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Author Biography

Rosane Kaminski

Doutora em História pela Universidade do Paraná (UFPR). Professora do Departamento de História e do Programa de Pós-graduação em História da UFPR. Coorganizadora do livro Arte e política no Brasil: modernidades. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2014.

Published

2016-06-17

How to Cite

Kaminski, R. (2016). Chaotic Brazilianness: opera, samba and German Christmas in the film Aleluia, Gretchen! (1976). ArtCultura, 17(30). Retrieved from https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/34820