Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

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Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)

Original Title

Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova

Release Date

1968-01-01

Year

1968

Duration

24m

Status

Released

Score

7.70

Production

#architecture#short-film

Cast

Ferreira Gullar

Ferreira Gullar

Narrator (voice)