Filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho

Many of his films are based on interviews, which he went into without a script, making them more like ordinary conversations. He had different people discussing the same theme. Like metal workers who talk about the battle they fought in the seventies and eighties in Metal Workers (2004), the residents of an apartment building in Rio de Janeiro about their lives in Master, a Copacabana Building (2002) and various Brazilians about songs that changed their lives in Songs (2011). Coutinho studied film direction in France in the late 1950s, after which he started working as a film producer and director in Brazil. He made several feature fiction films, including ABC do amor (1967). Later he devoted himself to writing scenarios, such as for Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976). He worked for some time at the TV program Globo Repórter before specializing in making documentaries. In early 2014, Coutinho was stabbed to death in his home by his son, who reportedly suffered from schizophrenia. His last film Last Conversations (2015) was completed by João Moreira Salles after Coutinho's death.