Ruy Guerra
Directing
August 22, 1931
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
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020
A Linguagem do Cinema
2001
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
Le Maître du temps
1971
Blue Blood
2014
Dib
1997
The Beggars
1963
Asa Real
2024
Gabo & Cinema
2016
Saudade
2017
Breathless
2006
The House of Sand
2005
Branded For Life
1977
Chico: Brazilian Artist
2015
About Cinema
2015
The Suns of Easter Island
1972
Cinema Novo
2016
Brazil in Cannes
1971
Tempo Ruy
2021
Benito Cereno
1971