Abrahão Farc
Biography
Abram Jacob Szafarc (São Paulo, July 28, 1937 — São Paulo, September 24, 2012), better known as Abrahão Farc, was a Brazilian actor.
Known For & Full Filmography66 Titles
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Domingues
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Hermano
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Padre Malaquias
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Miguel Benício
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Coronel Paulo Sampaio
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes • as Natan Xavier
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Moshe
For 30 years, José João Batista—better known as Zezão—worked for the same company. After being forced into retirement by the board, he is left bitter and resentful, only to win a major lottery prize. However, he never collects the winnings, as he is struck and killed by a vehicle beforehand; the winning ticket ends up being buried with him. Angelina, Zezão’s wife, and their four children—Pedro, Jesus, André, and Maria de Fátima—search everywhere for the ticket, until Angelina has a vision of her late husband. In the vision, he reveals that he was buried with the ticket, which was tucked into the pocket of his suit jacket. Angelina then decides to exhume Zezão’s body. When the coffin is opened, the family discovers the corpse wearing only his underwear and concludes that the ticket has been stolen. This sets the stage for the soap opera's main plot: the search for the missing ticket.
Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as Silas Aguiar
Beatriz, a spoiled young woman who, after consulting with the fortune teller Custodia, discovers that she needs to change to find happiness and love Dante, an honest man married to Clarice.
Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Guilherme
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as Dr. Chico de Souza
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Calixto
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes • as Marujo
Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Procópio Piloto
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Mathias Amaral
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Osório
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as Eugênio
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • as Piragibe
Daniel is a psychic who can see the past and predict the future. As a child, he had a vision that his brother-in-law, João Henrique, was cheating on his sister, Ester, which led her to separate from her husband. As an adult, his psychic abilities increase and Daniel uses them for his own benefit, rather than to help people. He sets up a practice and appears on TV, becoming famous and known as “the Prophet.” Daniel begins to grow rich, important, and cold.
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as advogado de Mário
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes • as Dr. Heitor
Marisol is a Brazilian telenovela produced by SBT in partnership with Televisa and originally broadcast from April 9 to November 5, 2002. It is a Brazilian adaptation of the Mexican telenovela Marisol, based on the original story by Inés Rodena. Adapted by Henrique Zambelli with text supervision by Ecila Pedroso, the telenovela stars Bárbara Paz and Carlos Casagrande. The story follows Marisol, a kind-hearted young woman who was abandoned as a baby and raised by a poor couple. The only clue to her true identity is a necklace her mother left with her. As she falls in love with Rodrigo Lima do Vale, Marisol becomes entangled in a web of family secrets, betrayal, greed, and revenge. Determined to uncover the truth about her origins, she must overcome countless obstacles while fighting for justice, happiness, and the love of her life.
Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • as Velho
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Salomão
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Dr. Salomão Barcellos
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes • as Albino
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Tibério
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Seu Lau
Set in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, the story shows how Pardal and Bebel, young people newly arrived in the city, fall in love. However, each hides their true identity from the other.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Vice-presidente do banco
On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, they confiscate the filmed negatives. The paranoid director grumbles: "Are they from the government?". The execution of the film is compromised. Will the director in trouble be able to complete his film?
Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Seixas
The miniseries portrays the greed for money, power and prestige through the rise and fall of Alex Torres, a consequence of the schemes of the unscrupulous banker Frederico Scorza.
Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Diretor da PE
Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.
Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • as Lula
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Júlio
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Vital
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes • as Romeu
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • as pai do Bel-Ami
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as diretor do presídio
The story takes place in São Paulo, in the late 1920s, and has Mariano's memories as its starting point. Orphaned, he loses the aunt who raised him and ends up in Madame Iara's brothel, where he meets two people who transform his life: Esmeraldo, a gigolo who loves the good life who becomes his master; and the prostitute Guadalupe, known as Lu, a sweet and extremely sensual woman. Esmeraldo is Lu's boyfriend, whom he loves unconditionally. Mariano enters the couple's lives and ends up falling in love with her, thus forming the love triangle that drives the entire narrative.
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Saul
The miniseries tells the story of Leninha, who marries Paulo due to a financial agreement made by her father, Dílson. Her life changes when she meets her brother-in-law, Mauricio, during a trip to her husband's farm in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. The two fall in love and become lovers. Leninha then begins to experience a great conflict: social and moral rules impose on her the behavior of a good wife, faithful and companion, but her desire for Maurício speaks louder. Consuelo, mother of Paulo and Maurício, realizes what is happening and begins to antagonize her daughter-in-law. Upon discovering the betrayal, Paulo starts to hate his brother. At the end of the plot, Leninha decides to stay with her husband, and the couple happily announces that they will have a child. Mauricio despairs, but later recovers in Regina's arms.
Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Sr. Freak
After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Fat Man
An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Sr. Custódio
Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His beloved mentor and surrogate father is dying, and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares him for the day when he comes home to discover that his 15-year-old son, Pedro, has disappeared. Theo takes to the road in search of his son. In a journey that leads him throughout Brazil, Theo discovers what really matters to him. Searching for his missing son, Theo finds himself.
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The story begins when the police find a murdered young woman and link the crime to the activities of a drug gang. One of the central characters of this gang is Lucien, protagonist of the miniseries. He is one of the main mafia leaders in the country and the son of the powerful boss of União Corsa. Lucien disputes authority within the organization with Lorenzo, his antagonist. Still in the first chapter, Lucien meets the model Heloísa. The young woman comes from a middle-class family and dreams of social mobility. He falls madly in love with her, and the two begin a rapturous romance.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Librarian
Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a trans man who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with young librarian Clara.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case.
Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Anatol
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Homem dos Soldadinhos de Chumbo
A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.
Movie - 1998, 2h 15m • as Vendedor ambulante
A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.
Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • as Judge
Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. João de Camargo represents the genesis of religious and cultural syncretism in Brazil.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Self
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Mário
Mr. Mario can't distinguish anymore the past from the present. He lives again, inside his own mind, a period of his life when he was a salesman going door to door selling travel guides. However, Mr. Mario has never traveled, but now, an opportunity to see the world arises. Felipe, his grandson, will be his loyal partner on this great journey.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as Delegado
Helena and Renato are a couple who leave behind the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house and help Helena recover from her nervous crises. But soon she begins to suffer from increasingly worrying hallucinations, and the house’s mystery appliances begin to come to life. Is it all real or in her head?
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Garçom
Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Tourist
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Mestre de obras
Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais, Totônio is a symbol of the golden age of state farms: old and accustomed to having all his wills obeyed. However, after moving to his son's home because of his wife's death and the resulting loneliness, he realizes that he has lost his job as a boss and is struggling to regain his prestige by moving to a brothel.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Dr. Chico de Souza
Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments because the network that financed it went under.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Mordomo
Laura and Alan fall in love, but have to deal with the strange death of Alan's wife and with a rival, Lilith, who wants to break their relationship. At the same time, a narrator gives lessons on how to make a love story movie, exposing all clichés on that kind of film.
Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • as Rafael
Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer player who has his career spoiled by a unscrupulous gambler
Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Dicionarista
A funny yet bitter panorama of the several possible viewpoints of this feeling that fulfils hearts and minds.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.