Helena Solberg

São Paulo, Brasil, 1942.

 

Director
Director and producer of documentaries, most famous of which is Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (1995), about a Brazilian celebrity from the forties and fifties of the last century. Solberg started her film career during the mid-sixties with the short A Entrevista (1966). In the seventies she moved to the USA, where she lived and worked for almost thirty years. Among others, there she filmed the documentary The Forbidden Land (1989). After returning to Brazil, she made a documentary about Carmen Miranda. Adaptation of a famous Brazilian biographical novel, Diary of a Provincial Girl (Vida de Menina, 2005) is her first and so far her only feature film. It was followed by the documentary Palavra (en)cantada (2008).

Filmography


Films by this director

Diary of a Provincial Girl

(Vida de Menina, 2005.)

Directed by: Helena Solberg
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pedro Farkas
Synopsis:

The film is set at the end of the 19th century, during the abolition of slavery and the fall of the monarchy. We follow the transition of the Brazilian society through a diary of a teenage girl who lives in the colonial town of Diamantina. The film is based on a biographical novel by Helena Morley, who grew up in a mining town that used to be rich in diamonds. Unlike the other townsfolk, Helena's father is stubbornly looking for diamonds, to the detriment of his family, who lives on the verge o...

color, digital, 101 min
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