Director – Lúcia Nagib
Lúcia Nagib FBA is Professor of Film at the University of Reading and Honorary Professor of Film at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo.
She is an internationally recognised specialist in world cinema, cinematic realism and cinematic intermediality, which she has explored through a novel approach in many publications, including her single-authored books, Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (Bloomsbury, 2011). Her edited books include The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium Through Other Media (with Stefan Solomon, Oxford University Press, 2023), Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (with Luciana Araújo and Tiago de Luca, Edinburgh University Press, 2022), Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film (with Anne Jerslev, I.B. Tauris, 2013), Theorizing World Cinema (with Chris Perriam and Rajinder Dudrah, I.B. Tauris, 2012) and Realism and the Audiovisual Media (with Cecília Mello, Palgrave, 2009). Before Films to Die For, she directed, with Samuel Paiva, the award-winning feature-length documentary film, Passages (UK, 2019).
Editor – Tatiana Germano
Tatiana Germano is an award-winning film editor with long track-record across film, TV, and digital media in the UK and Brazil. She brings an auteur-driven approach to editing, shaped by a background in visual storytelling and narrative structure.
Her recent work includes Passages (Lúcia Nagib and Samuel Paiva, 2019), Turner (Joanna Mammede, 2024) and Notes on Listening (Francisco Mazza, 2024), which featured at international festivals and arthouse cinemas around the world.
CREDITS
Films To Die For
UK 2025, 89 minutes
Director and Producer
Lúcia Nagib
Script
Lúcia Nagib and Tatiana Germano
Editor
Tatiana Germano
Interviews with (in order of appearance)
Wim Wenders; Paulo Branco; Walter Salles; Laura Mulvey
Glauber Rocha’s letters read by Victor Fraga
Camera and Sound
Portugal unit:
Francisco Baccaro (DoP); Diogo Dobbin
Berlin unit:
Rodrigo Levy (DoP); Benjamin Raeder
UK unit:
Rodrigo Levy (DoP); Shoib Ahmad; Andrew Philip; Hsin Hsieh
Supervising Sound Editor
Miriam Biderman, ABC
Re-recording Mixer
Ricardo Reis, ABC
Post Sound Facility
Effects Filmes
Colour grading
Tatiana Germano
Promotional design
Kornelia Kucharska
Films cited (in order of appearance)
The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge, Wim Wenders, 1982)
The Age of the Earth (A idade da terra, Glauber Rocha, 1980)
Glauber the Movie, Labyrinth of Brazil (Glauber o filme, labirinto do Brasil, Sílvio Tendler, 2003)
The American Friend (Der amerikanische Freund, Wim Wenders, 1977)
One From the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola, 1981)
Wrong Move (Falsche Bewegung, Wim Wenders, 1975)
The Territory (O território, Raúl Ruiz, 1981)
Friendship’s Death (Peter Wollen, 1987)
Foreign Land (Terra estrangeira, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, 1995)
Lightening Over Water (Wim Wenders, 1980)
Hammett (Wim Wenders, 1982)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
Reverse Angle (Wim Wenders, 1982)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d’un rêveur, Robert Bresson, 1971)
Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira, 1981)
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bête, Jean Cocteau, 1946)
Alekan, La lumière (Michel Dumoulin, 1985)
Breathless (A bout de souffle, Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
Crystal Gazing (Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 1982)
La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer, 1967)
The Day the World Ended (Roger Corman, 1959)
The Most Dangerous Man Alive (Alan Dwan, 1961)
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (Samuel Fuller, 1972)
Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten, 1974)
Central Station (Central do Brasil, Walter Salles, 1998)
Riddles of the Sphinx (Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 1977)
Change of Life (Mudar de vida, Paulo Rocha, 1966)
In the White City (Dans la ville blanche, Alain Tanner, 1983)
Non, or the Vain Glory of Command (Non, ou a vã glória de mandar, Manoel de Oliveira, 1990)
Lisbon Story (Wim Wenders, 1994)
The Passenger (Professione: Reporter, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
Entranced Earth (Terra em transe, Glauber Rocha, 1967)
Black God, White Devil (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol, Glauber Rocha, 1964)
Wind from the East (Le Vent d’est, Dziga Vertov Group/Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1970)
The Guns and the People (As armas e o povo, Colectivo de Trabalhadores da Actividade Cinematográfica, 1975)
Music
“State of Things”
Composed and performed by Jürgen Knieper
“Haar”
Written and performed by Erland Cooper. Published by Full Time Hobby. Publishing Administered by Bucks Music Group Ltd
“Haar”
Composed and performed by Lucie Treacher and Joaquim Badia
International Distributor
Yixiang Lin
Source Work
Nagib, Lúcia (2020), ‘The Death of (a) Cinema’, in: Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-Cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 41-61.
Fragments of Sintra is a Beautiful Place to Die, a video interview with Glauber Rocha by Patrick Bauchau (1981) were obtained from Glauber the Film, Labyrinth of Brazil (Silvio Tendler, 2003)
To Glauber Rocha and Lúcia Rocha, in memoriam
Special Thanks to:
The University of Reading
Thanks to:
Abeer Mohamed, Amie Cliffen, Anna Fraga McLucas, Casa das Minas (Sintra), Catherine Grant, Cecília Mello, Chris Bacon, Christian Keathley, Chris O’Shea, Christine Rennert, Claire Brunel, Daniel Ribas, Emily Hughes, Hella Wenders, Hotel Arribas (Sintra), Jasmine Haynes-Bell, João Lemos, João Vitor Resende Leal, John Archer, John Gibbs, Jonathan Bignell, Leonor Batista, Leopardo Filmes, Luciana Corrêa de Araújo, Lucie Treacher, Maria Carlota Bruno, Maria do Carmo Piçarra, Marta Ravani, Mona Camargo, Patrícia Monteiro, Paulo Dias Branco, Paulo Filipe Monteiro, Rodrigo Lariú, Samuel Paiva, Stephen Shennan, Susanne Becker, Tiago de Luca, Wim Wenders Stiftung