Directing
Ruy Guerra
SW, PT, ES, EN cinema · 56 credits
Born
22 August 1931 (age 95)
Birthplace
Maputo, Moçambique
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
Filmography
Mueda
Mueda
Director
A Fúria
Director, Writer
Time, Knifed
Writer, Original Story
In Pieces
Director, Screenplay
Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
as Self (archive footage)
Tempo Ruy
as Self
Oblivious Memory
as Voz do sapo, Director
Saudade
as Self
Cinema Novo
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
About Cinema
as Self
The Mirror
Consulting Editor
Blue Blood
as Mumbebo
In Evil Hour
Director, Writer
The House of Sand
as Vasco de Sá
Portugal S.A.
Director
Turbulence
Writer, Director
Monsanto
Director
Dib
as Self
The Jew
Editor
Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
Director, Writer
Kuarup
Director, Producer, Writer
Malandro
Producer, Director, Writer
Erendira
Director
Mueda, Memory and Massacre
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Branded For Life
Actor, Editor
The Fall
Writer, Director, Editor, Music
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
as Don Pedro de Ursúa
Of Gods and the Undead
Editor, Director, Screenplay
Sweet Hunters
Director, Writer
The Guns
Screenplay, Director, Editor
O Santo Módico
Assistant Director
The Beggars
Actor, Editor
The Unscrupulous Ones
Director, Writer
Le Tout pour le tout
Assistant Director
S.O.S. Noronha
as Miguel