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Ruy Guerra 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).

Ruy Guerra Filmography (Cast)

Overview: A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

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Overview: A documentary about the work of filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and film director Ruy Guerra. The audiovisual collage presents the director’s trajectory, from his first experience with cinema up to his most recent thoughts on his work.

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Overview: A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

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Overview: It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, arguably the most influential novel in any language of the second half of the twentieth century, to be produced. However, the prolific Colombian writer had strong ties to the movies.

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Overview: The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the transition from film to industrialized production. It is the meeting of producers, technicians, critics , celebrities in general, offering opportunities for greater knowledge and renewal of values

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Overview: 23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.

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Overview: The project ‘5 x slum, now by ourselves’ gathered over 80 young people from Rio’s favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities – with the promise of escape stereotypical representations.

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Overview: An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.

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Overview: An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.

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Overview: When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.

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Overview: Vladimir Carvalho’s Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker’s trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important Brazilian documentary filmmakers in activity, his images influenced the emergence of Cinema Novo and the new Brazilian documentary years later. Quando a Coisa Vira Outra covers the most important films made by Vladimir, revealing where ideas come from to show the true reality of a country.

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Overview: When Captain Amaso Delano approaches a three-masted ship in distress to offer his assistance, he discovers a most unusual situation: its captain, Don Benito Cereno, seems to command a very scant crew, moreover composed only of Africans. Cereno is in very bad condition and apparently survives only thanks to the affectionate care of his faithful body-servant slave Atimbo. When Delano leaves the dilapidated ship to seek relief, Cereno jumps in the boat and explains to the Americans that he has been the victim of a revolt of the slaves. The ship is now in their hands.

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Overview: Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.

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Overview: Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil’s art scene and makes up its citizen’s popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.

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Overview: A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people’s problems, that combined art and revolution.

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Overview: Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.

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Overview: Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.

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Overview: In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulibaud, head of the aeropostale radio station, and his team-mates Mastic and Froment, try to prevent them from entering the concession where the island’s governor and his daughter have taken refuge. They manage to repair the radio so as to follow and guide Mermoz as he attempts to cross the South Atlantic for the 53rd time. The aviator is forced to ditch and is picked up by a boat. Their mission accomplished, Coulibaud and his team boarded a British ship that had come to their rescue.

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Overview: A true friendship develops between Jojô, a prostitute Rosa, and the young Eduardo, who survive on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Everything goes well until ambition takes over the trio, causing friends to aim for bigger goals, planning a big assault that could cost them their lives.

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Overview: French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?

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Overview: In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country’s capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

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Overview: A woman with a dream: to fly. During a frenetic search for the final widget for her gadget, pursuers will try to stop her.

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Ruy Guerra Crew Credits

Title	Job	Department	Release
Os Comprometidos – Actas de um processo de descolonização	Director	Directing	1984-06-05
Quand Le Soleil Dort	Director	Directing	1954-07-08
Me alquilo para soñar	Director	Directing	1992-03-19
Portugal S.A.	Director	Directing	2004-01-16
The Unscrupulous Ones	Director	Directing	1962-03-24
Malandro	Producer	Production	1986-07-02
Turbulence	Writer	Writing	2000-05-13
Erendira	Director	Directing	1983-06-01
Malandro	Director	Directing	1986-07-02
Malandro	Writer	Writing	1986-07-02
The Guns	Screenplay	Writing	1964-06-01
The Guns	Director	Directing	1964-06-01
The Fall	Writer	Writing	1976-08-20
The Fall	Director	Directing	1976-08-20
Kuarup	Director	Directing	1989-06-02
Of Gods and the Undead	Editor	Editing	1970-06-25
Of Gods and the Undead	Director	Directing	1970-06-25
Of Gods and the Undead	Screenplay	Writing	1970-06-25
Turbulence	Director	Directing	2000-05-13
The Guns	Editor	Editing	1964-06-01
Mueda, Memory and Massacre	Director	Directing	1982-05-05
Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier	Director	Directing	1990-05-30
Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier	Writer	Writing	1990-05-30
Kuarup	Producer	Production	1989-06-02
Kuarup	Writer	Writing	1989-06-02
In Evil Hour	Director	Directing	2006-02-02
Oblivious Memory	Director	Directing	2018-04-19
Sweet Hunters	Director	Directing	1970-03-22
In Evil Hour	Writer	Writing	2006-02-02
The Unscrupulous Ones	Writer	Writing	1962-03-24
Mueda, Memory and Massacre	Editor	Editing	1982-05-05
Mueda, Memory and Massacre	Director of Photography	Camera	1982-05-05
The Mirror	Consulting Editor	Editing	2015-08-12
The Jew	Editor	Editing	1996-01-16
The Fall	Editor	Editing	1976-08-20
The Fall	Music	Sound	1976-08-20
Esse Mundo é Meu	Editor	Editing	1964-04-01
The Beggars	Editor	Editing	1963-12-21
Five Times Favela	Editor	Editing	1962-11-20
Monsanto	Director	Directing	2000-02-15
Sweet Hunters	Writer	Writing	1970-03-22
Le tout pour le tout	Assistant Director	Directing	1962-07-06
O Santo Módico	Assistant Director	Directing	1964-01-01
Branded For Life	Editor	Editing	1977-11-24
In Pieces	Director	Directing	2025-02-13
In Pieces	Screenplay	Writing	2025-02-13
A Fúria	Director	Directing	2024-12-06
La Lettre Volèe	Director	Directing	1981-08-07

Translations

• English (en): Ruy Guerra — 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…
• Portuguese (pt): Ruy Guerra —