Ruy Guerra
Birthday: 1931-08-22
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).
Movies
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...
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Tempo Ruy
A documentary about the work of filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and film director Ruy Guerra. The aud...
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The House of Sand
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his pa...
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Gabo & Cinema
It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his...
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Brazil in Cannes
The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971...
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Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo C...
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5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), s...
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Le Maître du temps
An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras....
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About Cinema
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film abo...
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Blue Blood
When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent p...
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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades ...
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Benito Cereno
When Captain Amaso Delano approaches a three-masted ship in distress to offer his assistance, he dis...
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary...
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular cultur...
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The Beggars
A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins...
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Cinema Novo
A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in c...
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Dib
Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, co...
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The Suns of Easter Island
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easte...
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S.O.S. Noronha
In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulib...
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A Linguagem do Cinema
A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, M...
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Branded For Life
A true friendship develops between Jojô, a prostitute Rosa, and the young Eduardo, who survive on th...
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Breathless
French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can s...
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capit...
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Asa Real
A woman with a dream: to fly. During a frenetic search for the final widget for her gadget, pursuers...
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