Ten years ago, the filmmaker had been diagnosed with diabetic neuropathy, a disease that harms the nervous system; Death was confirmed by his daughter
The filmmaker Silvio Tendlerknown as the “interrupted dream filmmaker“, died on Friday, September 5, at the age of 75, the victim of a widespread infection. He had faced a diabetic neuropathy for ten years, a disease that compromises the nervous system.
The information was confirmed by Caliban, the producer he founded on social networks. Check it out:
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Tendler It was one of the main names in Brazilian documentary cinema, portraying episodes and historical figures of national politics. Among his best known films are the “presidential trilogy”: Jango (1980), JK years – a political trajectory (1980) and Tancredo, the crossing (2011). The documentary about João Goulart reached about 1 million viewers, becoming one of the biggest hits of its kind in the country.
Other big box office films directed by Tendler include The Magic World of Bumrest (1981), with 1.3 million viewers, and The years JKwith 800 thousand. Your most ambitious work, Utopia and Barbarismit took about twenty years to complete and offers a portrait of the second half of the 20th century, with interviews and analysis of names such as Augusto Boal, Eduardo Galeano and Susan Sontag.
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1950, Tendler He began his career in cinema in the late 1960s. To escape the military dictatorship, he went through exile in Chile before moving to France, where he studied history and cinema. Returning to Brazil, he became a professor at PUC-Rio and founded the producer Caliban, responsible for over 80 documentary titles, mostly historic.
In the 1990s, Tendler He also worked in institutional policy, as secretary of culture and sports of the Federal District, and collaborated with UNESCO in the articulation of audiovisual industry in Mercosur. Throughout his career, he received more than 60 awards at national and international festivals and was awarded by the Federal Government with the Rio Branco Order and, recently, with the Order of Cultural Merit.
Silvio Tendler He leaves his wife, Fabiana Versasi, and her daughter, Ana Rosa Tendler, as well as a remarkable legacy that consolidated her importance to the cinema and the historical memory of Brazil.
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