Personal Info
Birth date
1945-02-22 (80 Years)
Day of death
2016-08-16
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Leutkirch im Allgäu, Baden-Württemberg, German
Also known as
-Elke Maravilha
Biography
Elke Grünupp, known by her stage name Elke Maravilha (Leutkirch im Allgäu, February 22, 1945 – Rio de Janeiro, August 16, 2016), was a German-Brazilian model, judge, presenter and actress. She began to act as a model and mannequin at the age of 24, working with famous stylists of the time and was considered an innovator on the catwalks. Initially discreet, over time she made room for her extravagance.
Filmography
Celebridade
8.2
Overview:
A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.The Return Of The Rockefeller
8
Overview:
The big shot Albert returns after three years, reuniting with his family — his parents and his sister. And he gets in touch with some acquaintances, such as his old friend Vitório and a decadent high society woman. And once again Albert, the Rockefeller gets involved with millionaires and opportunists.Pixote
8
Overview:
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.Carrossel 2: O Sumiço de Maria Joaquina
6.158
Overview:
The children are invited by a Brazilian music star to one of his shows. But the trip turns into a nightmare when the villains Gonzales and Gonzalito, recently released from prison, decide to kidnap Maria Joaquina.Xuxa Requebra
3.4
Overview:
Nena, a journalist and former student of the Two Hearts dance academy, tries to stop the school from being sold to a group of drug dealers. She trains a group to win the Requebra dance contest that would give them the necessary money to carry their plans.Xica
6.813
Overview:
The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power.Mato Sem Cachorro
5.4
Overview:
The day a man almost runs-over a puppy, he meets the love of his life. The couple and their dog live the dream, until she wants out.The Inventor of Dreams
10
Overview:
Mixed with fiction and documentary, the film relives the interviews conducted by the writer Clarice Lispector published in the magazines "Manchete" and "Fatos and Fotos" in the 1970s.Pixote In Memoriam
7
Overview:
A tribute documentary on Fernando Ramos da Silva, the famous child star of the acclaimed film by Hector Babenco, "Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco" (1981). 20 years after his assassination by the police, his co-stars and Babenco talk about Fernando's contributions to the film, his troubled life when his acting works didn't took off as expected (since he was typecast) and which made him turn back to his past life of poverty and crimes. The project also presents that film's influence to many directors and artists around the world.Big Brother Brasil
4.5
Overview:
Brazilian version of the reality game show in which a group of houseguests live together 24 hours a day, isolated from the outside world but under constant surveillance with no privacy. Each week a guest is voted out of the house until only the winner remains.Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
5
Overview:
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.Zuzu Angel
6.8
Overview:
Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.Dzi Croquettes
7.735
Overview:
A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.The Force of Xango
4
Overview:
Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets beautiful Zulmira; they pledge love and projects for many children. But time passes and Tonho returns to being the womanizer he had always been. Zulmira, daughter of Iansã, cannot stand Tonho's brazenness, and asks her saint-mother to wash her honor with blood.Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
6.405
Overview:
The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.Si tu vas à Rio... tu meurs
5.6
Overview:
Twin brothers arrive in Rio during the Carnival. One is a priest and is going to work in a parish; the other, a drug-dealer, in a business trip to sell cocaine. They’re not aware of each other’s presence. People expecting them always get in touch with the wrong guy.Hello, Hello, Terezinha!
6.8
Overview:
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.Super Oldboy
9
Overview:
Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at the bank. One day he gets involved in an unusual bank robbery.Chacrinha: Eu Vim para Confundir e Não para Explicar
6
Overview:
Chacrinha's legacy on TV and excerpts from his personal life are revealed through testimonials and archive images, which tell the story behind the cameras, the behind the scenes that consolidated a new way of communicating Brazil and the facets of a man who is one of the most interesting contemporary characters on the national cultural scene.Bahia
5.3
Overview:
The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen from her shortly after arrival, Otalia swiftly meets up with a group of charming and helpful friends.Extreme Happiness
3.8
Overview:
Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the dreams – or nearly all – seem possible. In this exciting scenery of transformation, Paulo discovers love, friendship and sex through his childhood and adolescence in the 1950’s and 1960’s.Tanga (Deu no New York Times?)
3.5
Overview:
The dictator of a small Caribbean island receives the New York Times daily, sent by a nephew. Through the newspaper, he gets in touch with the world. Guerrilla groups try to neutralize this information system.O Barão Otelo no Barato dos Bilhões
4.8
Overview:
João-Sem-Direção knows Carvalhaes that proposes a blow to him. John does not accept the proposal, but ends up earning a hefty cash in the game.Daquele Instante em Diante
NYR
Overview:
This film documents in depth the life and artistic trajectory of the musician and poet Itamar Assumpção. He was one of the pillars of a moment of Brazilian popular music that was conventionally called "Vanguarda Paulista". Starting from extensive research which resulted in more than 250h of images and a dive into the personal universe of this incredible artist, Itamar comes up with a poetic, intuitive plot where facts and testimonies speak louder than preconceived ideas.Acting
2021Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina as Self
2021Chacrinha: Eu Vim para Confundir e Não para Explicar as Self
2016Moon in Sagittarius as Ulla
2016Carrossel 2: O Sumiço de Maria Joaquina as Dona Lelé
2016Super Oldboy as Unknown
2015Olhar de Nise as Elke Maravilha
2015Copyleft as Unknown
2015Ferdinando Show (1 Episode) as Unknown
2015A Lenda do Gato Preto as Angelina - Passado
2013Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme as Mirtes
2013Mato Sem Cachorro as Dona Nora
2011Daquele Instante em Diante as Self (archive footage)
2011Fca Carla as Lúcia
2010Extreme Happiness as Grandma
2010The Inventor of Dreams as Unknown
2009Hello, Hello, Terezinha! as Self
2009Dzi Croquettes as Self
2007Pixote In Memoriam as Self
2007Elke as Ela mesma
2006Zuzu Angel as Lieselotte
2003Celebridade (1 Episode) as Self
2002Big Brother Brasil (1 Episode) as Self
1999Xuxa Requebra as Iara Macedo (Macedão)
1993Vênus de Fogo as Unknown
1989Minas Texas as Generosa da Luz
1988Heirs of the House of Usher as Lady Madeleine
1988Prisoner of Rio as Frank
1987Si tu vas à Rio... tu meurs as Shipowner's wife
1987Tanga (Deu no New York Times?) as Unknown
1986Memórias de um Gigolô (20 Episodes) as Madame Yara
1980Pixote as Débora
1979Amante Latino as Unknown
1979O Milagre - O Poder da Fé as Unknown
1978A Noiva da Cidade as Daniela
1978Elke Maravilha Contra o Homem Atômico as Elke
1977The Force of Xango as Iaba
1976Bahia as Unknown
1976Xica as Hortência
1974Gente Que Transa as Esmeralda
1973The Return Of The Rockefeller (198 Episodes) as Sofia
1972When Carnaval Comes as Elke Evremides
1971Lua de Mel e Amendoim as Unknown
1971O Barão Otelo no Barato dos Bilhões as Unknown
1970Salário Mínimo as Unknown