Une enquête approfondie, sous forme d'essai poétique, sur l'un des principaux mouvements cinématographiques latino-américains, analysé à travers la pensée de ses principaux auteurs, qui ont inventé, au début des années 1960, une nouvelle façon de faire du cinéma au Brésil, avec une attitude politique, toujours proche des problèmes du peuple, combinant art et révolution..
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967..
Recalling the films "Sol Sobre a Lama" and "A Grande Feira", which portrayed the living conditions of Bahian society in the 1960s, the scenario was the Feira de Água de Meninos that was set on fire. Today the Feira de São Joaquim and its marketers live situations similar to those of the Cinema Novo films, in parallel they wait with hope for the beginning of the revitalization and expansion of the largest open market in Bahia..
