Person
Ruy Guerra
Directing · Born 1931-08-22 · 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
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Don Pedro de Ursúa
Erendira
Director
I Sell My Dreams
Director
Oblivious Memory
Voz do sapo
The House of Sand
Vasco de Sá
Kuarup
Director
Saudade
Self
Sweet Hunters
Director
The Mirror
Consulting Editor
Time, Knifed
Writer
Filmography
- 2026A FúriaDirector
- 2025In PiecesDirector
- 2024Asa Real
- 2023Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
- 2022Quando a Coisa Vira OutraSelf (archive footage)
- 2021Já que Ninguém me Tira Para DançarSelf
- 2021Tempo RuySelf
- 2020Candango: Memoirs from a FestivalSelf
- 2018Oblivious MemoryVoz do sapo
- 2017SaudadeSelf
- 2017The Man Who Killed John WayneSelf
- 2016Cinema NovoSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2016Gabo & CinemaSelf
- 2015Chico: Brazilian ArtistSelf
- 2015About CinemaSelf
- 2015The MirrorConsulting Editor
- 2014Blue BloodMumbebo
- 20105x Favela, Now by Ourselves
- 2006In Evil HourDirector
- 2006Breathless
- 2005The House of SandVasco de Sá
- 2004Portugal S.A.Director
- 2001A Linguagem do Cinema
- 2000TurbulenceWriter
- 2000MonsantoDirector
- 1999Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão
- 1997DibSelf
- 1996The JewEditor
- 1994I Sell My DreamsDirector
- 1990Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-FancierDirector
- 1989KuarupDirector
- 1986MalandroProducer
- 1985Nifrapo
- 1984Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonizaçãoDirector
- 1983ErendiraDirector
- 1982Mueda, Memory and MassacreDirector
- 1981La Lettre VolèeDirector
- 1977Branded For Life
- 1976The FallWriter
- 1972Aguirre, the Wrath of GodDon Pedro de Ursúa
- 1972The Suns of Easter Island
- 1971Brazil in Cannes
- 1971Le Maître du temps
- 1971Benito Cereno
- 1970Of Gods and the UndeadEditor
- 1970Sweet HuntersDirector
- 1964The GunsScreenplay
- 1964Esse Mundo é MeuEditor
- 1964O Santo MódicoAssistant Director
- 1963The Beggars
- 1962Five Times FavelaEditor
- 1962Le Tout pour le toutAssistant Director
- 1962The Unscrupulous OnesDirector
- 1957S.O.S. NoronhaMiguel
- 1954Quand Le Soleil DortDirector
- —Time, KnifedWriter
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