Ruy Guerra
Director
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).
Filmography
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
as Don Pedro de Ursúa 1972
The House of Sand
as Vasco de Sá 2005
Cinema Novo
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2016
Chico: Brazilian Artist
as Self 2015
Blue Blood
2014
The Suns of Easter Island
1972
5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
2010
About Cinema
as Self 2015
Le Maître du temps
1971
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self 2017
Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
2023
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
as Self 2021
A Linguagem do Cinema
2001
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
as Self 2020
Asa Real
2024
Tempo Ruy
as Self 2021
Gabo & Cinema
as Self 2016