Alberto Cavalcanti Filmes

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

This film is based on actual letters German soldiers sent home from the siege of Leningrad during World War II. The litany of trouble these poor...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to...

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

A New York music-hall actress lives in a miserable loveless marriage. After a violent scene, the man leaves her, taking their baby and leaving it...

Caiçara is a 1950 Brazilian drama film directed by and starring Adolfo Celi. It was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1951...

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the...

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.