Eduardo Coutinho Occupation (IMS Poços) - Instituto Moreira Salles

Eduardo Coutinho. Photo by Zeca Guimarães.

Eduardo Coutinho as a baby. Personal collection of Heloísa Coutinho.

Eduardo Coutinho, aged 15, with his sister Heloísa Coutinho, aged 13, in Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil. Personal collection of Heloísa Coutinho.

Eduardo Coutinho in his film The End and the Beginning. Photo by Tuca Vieira.

Eduardo Coutinho on the set of Moscow, 2008. Photo by Bianca Aun.

Eduardo Coutinho as a child. Photo by Talina Souza Queiroz do Amaral / Personal collection of Heloísa Coutinho.

Eduardo Coutinho, 1957. Personal collection of Heloísa Coutinho.

Coutinho with a train conductor in Moscow, 1957. Personal collection of Heloísa Coutinho.

Coutinho returning to the Araçás farm to show The End and the Beginning to its characters. Photo by Tuca Vieira.

Coutinho and Adrian Cooper during the filming of The thread of memory, 1988–1991. IMS Collection.

Eduardo Coutinho as a baby, 1934. Photo by Talina Souza Queiroz / Personal collection of Heloísa Coutinho.

Eduardo Coutinho as a child. Personal collection of Heloísa Coutinho.

Eduardo Coutinho (1933-2014) began his career as a screenwriter and director of fiction film. He transitioned to documentaries through television, producing pioneering programs for Globo Repórter about the Brazilian interior. He cemented his reputation in the genre in 1985 by reviving a project cut short by the 1964 military coup as a documentary: Twenty Years Later, which is considered a landmark of Brazilian and world cinema. In 1999, at age 66, he experienced a creative renaissance with The Mighty Split, kicking off a succession of major films such as Babilônia 2000, Master, a Building in Copacabana), Metalworkers, Playing, and Songs. Coutinho's final work, Last Conversations, was completed after his death by João Moreira Salles and released in 2015 at the É Tudo Verdade festival.