Directing
Ruy Guerra
Birth Date
August 22, 1931
(95 years old)
Place of Birth
Maputo, Moçambique
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Biography
Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira (born August 22, 1931) is a Portuguese-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor. Guerra was born a Portuguese citizen in Lourenço Marques (today Maputo) in Mozambique, when it was still Portuguese colony. Guerra studied at IDHEC film school in Paris from 1952. In 1958 he started his career as an assistant director in several French films. Later on he immigrated to Brazil, where he directed his first feature film, Os Cafajestes (1962).
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Don Pedro de Ursúa
1972
Oblivious Memory
Voz do sapo
2018
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Self
2020
Chico: Brazilian Artist
Self
2015
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Self
2021
Blue Blood
Mumbebo
2014
About Cinema
Self
2015
5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
2010
The House of Sand
Vasco de Sá
2005
Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
2023
S.O.S. Noronha
Miguel
1957
Gabo & Cinema
Self
2016
Saudade
Self
2017
Nifrapo
1985
Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Self
2017
A Linguagem do Cinema
2001
Brazil in Cannes
1971
Cinema Novo
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2016
The Suns of Easter Island
1972