

The man who turned Brazilian TV into beautiful chaos — and the military hated him for it.
Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, radical, renewing, Chacrinha changed Brazilian television forever and expressed a Brazil that was around it, but was not perceived. The film tells the great adventure of Abelardo Barbosa through the eyes of the presenter. It gathers the nuclei of its constellation - chacretes, fledglings and artists who passed through its programs - to identify their individualities and their emotions.
Editing
Collage of 30+ years of anarchic television chaos.
Production
Incredible access to military-era broadcast archives.
Director
Nelson Hoineff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chacrinha invented the Brazilian variety show format that still dominates TV today — think Silvio Santos, think Faustão, all descend from this chaos.
The military dictatorship kept a secret file on Chacrinha labeled 'subversive entertainer' because his live improv made him impossible to pre-censor.
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