Name
Carlos Diegues
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1940-05-19
Deathday
2025-02-14 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Biography
Carlos José Fontes Diegues OMC, known as Cacá Diegues (Maceió, May 19, 1940 – Rio de Janeiro, February 14, 2025), was a Brazilian filmmaker. He was one of the founders of Cinema Novo.
Known For
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Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "C...
6.5
Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé...
6.584
In a crime-plagued area of Rio de Janeiro, a team of honest cops, including a determined r...
6.911
After learning that China has left the jail and is seeking revenge, Romeo needs to get mon...
6.896
André is a young doctor who, after spending a year working in Africa, discovers that he h...
5
Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious death...
- 2021 The Good Cinema as Self
- 1978 Summer Showers as Homem lendo jornal
- 2019 Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos as Self
- 2005 Looking for Black Orpheus as Self
- 2011 Consideração do Poema
- 2003 Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth as Self / Interviewee
- 2001 1968 - Without Losing Tenderness as Self
- 1991 Que Viva Glauber!
- 2020 Arroz, Feijão e Cinema as Self
- 2020 Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude as Self
- 1967 Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo as Self
- 2002 At the Edge of the Earth as Self
- 2006 Depois do Transe as Self
- 2013 Dossiê Jango as Self
- 2009 Em Quadro: A História de 4 Negros nas Telas as Self
- 2015 Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema as Self
- 1994 Rio's Love Song
- 2005 Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova as Self
- 2017 Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
- 2022 Quando a Coisa Vira Outra as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro as Self
- 2011 Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro as Self (archive footage)
- 2023 Roberto Farias - Memórias de um Cineasta as Self
- 2013 Giovanni Improtta as Vizinho
- 1989 Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo as Self
- 1997 Dib as Self
- 1972 The Suns of Easter Island
- 1984 Making of - Quilombo as Self
- 2016 Pitanga as Self
- 1997 Nelson Sargento as Self
- 2019 Memórias do Grupo Opinião as Self
- 2016 Cinema Novo as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 1998 For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
- 1980 Fênix as Self
- 2017 Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century as Self
- 2019 Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta as Self
- 1980 Cinématon IX as N°83
- 2020 Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self
- 2006 Referências as Self
- 2024 Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico” as Self
- 2024 Tributo: Zezé Motta as Self
- 1984 Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman as himself
- 1984 Claves, 2: We will return younger as himself
- 1984 Claves, 3: Small mother country, great mother country as Self
- 2026 Fernando Coni Campos: Cada um Vive como Sonha as himself
- 1986 Mais Luz
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2025 1961 ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2025 Chico Anysio: Um Homem à Procura de Um Personagem ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 O Canto Livre de Nara Leão ( 4 episodes ) as Self
