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 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
- Directing
- Born
- 1931-08-22 · Maputo, Moçambique
Known for
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) — Don Pedro de Ursúa
- The House of Sand (2005) — Vasco de Sá
- The Guns (1964) — Screenplay
- The Unscrupulous Ones (1962) — Director
- Cinema Novo (2016) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- Chico: Brazilian Artist (2015) — Self
- Erendira (1983) — Director
- Blue Blood (2014) — Mumbebo
- The Suns of Easter Island (1972)
- Kuarup (1989) — Director
- 5x Favela, Now by Ourselves (2010)
- Malandro (1986) — Producer
- Of Gods and the Undead (1970) — Editor
- Five Times Favela (1962) — Editor
- Oblivious Memory (2018) — Voz do sapo
- The Mirror (2015) — Consulting Editor