Directing
Ruy Guerra
1931 · Maputo, Moçambique
30 films
Bio
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).
Filmography
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Don Pedro de Ursúa
Oblivious Memory
Voz do sapo
Erendira
Director
Sweet Hunters
Director
Gabo & Cinema
Self
Kuarup
Director
Chico: Brazilian Artist
Self
Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
Director
The House of Sand
Vasco de Sá
Le Tout pour le tout
Assistant Director
Saudade
Self
Time, Knifed
Writer