Name
Ruy Guerra
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1931-08-22 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Maputo, Moçambique
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).
Known For
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A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the in...
6.7
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and af...
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Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popu...
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In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or histor...
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The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas ...
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A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American move...
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When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a t...
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- 2010 5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
- 1971 Le Maître du temps
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- 2014 Blue Blood as Mumbebo
- 2022 Quando a Coisa Vira Outra as Self (archive footage)
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- 2021 Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar as Self
- 2015 Chico: Brazilian Artist as Self
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- 1999 Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão as Álvaro
- 1997 Dib as Self
- 1972 The Suns of Easter Island
- 2017 The Man Who Killed John Wayne as Self
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- 2006 Breathless
- 2020 Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self
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