Ruy Guerra

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

5x Favela, Now by Ourselves

Gabo & Cinema

The Suns of Easter Island

Saudade

About Cinema

Brazil in Cannes

Branded For Life

All Movies (29)

• Asa Real2024
• Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!2023
• Quando a Coisa Vira Outra2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar2021 · as Self
• Tempo Ruy2021 · as Self
• Candango: Memoirs from a Festival2020 · as Self
• Oblivious Memory2018 · as Voz do sapo
• Saudade2017 · as Self
• The Man Who Killed John Wayne2017 · as Self
• Cinema Novo2016 · as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• Gabo & Cinema2016 · as Self
• Chico: Brazilian Artist2015 · as Self
• About Cinema2015 · as Self
• Blue Blood2014 · as Mumbebo
• 5x Favela, Now by Ourselves2010
• Breathless2006
• The House of Sand2005 · as Vasco de Sá
• A Linguagem do Cinema2001
• Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão1999
• Dib1997 · as Self
• Nifrapo1985
• Branded For Life1977
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God1972 · as Don Pedro de Ursúa
• The Suns of Easter Island1972
• Brazil in Cannes1971
• Le Maître du temps1971
• Benito Cereno1971
• The Beggars1963
• S.O.S. Noronha1957 · as Miguel