Desc: Santoro O Homem e Sua Música: Directed by John Howard Szerman. With Elson Farias, Edino Krieger, Júlio Medaglia, Henrique Morelenbaum. Santoro- The Man and His Music (75 ', color and B & W, shot in Full HD, Brazil, 2016) is a documentary about one of the most important composers and conductors of the XX century in the world, CLAUDIO SANTORO (1919-1989). After winning several awards in Brazil in 1946, Santoro received a Guggenheim Foundation scholarship to spend a year in the United States to study or work at will. The Foundation also offers to disseminate and distribute his work internationally. However, US authorities refused him entry visa to the United States in that it was considered a communist by the Brazilian intelligence services. Throughout a period of fifty years, Santoro composed over 600 works, many of which are produced during his stay in France, the United Kingdom, in the former USSR, Bulgaria and Germany, where he lives in exile between 1969 and 1977. Many important composers like Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez and Aram Khachaturian are among his countless friends and admirers. Twelve-tone, nationalist, abstract, folk, and electronic music, stochastic... Santoro, together with perhaps Igor Stravinsky is one of the most eclectic composers in the world. In the documentary - whose musical director is Santoro' son - also a pianist and conductor, like his father - we chose to show some of the most important pieces for each phase. For three and a half years, we worked together with four orchestras and two chamber orchestras, as well as with musicians in solo, duo, trio, etc. formations. Testimonies of musicians, conductors, musicologists, former colleagues and his family were also collected.