Ruy Guerra

In thisPortuguese name,the first or maternalfamily nameisGuerraand the second or paternal family name isCoelho Pereira.

Ruy Guerra
Guerra in 2010
Born	Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira (1931-08-22)August 22, 1931 Lourenço Marques,Portuguese Mozambique (present-dayMaputo,Mozambique)
Citizenship	Portugal Brazil
Occupations	Film director screenwriter
Years active	1954–present
Movement	Cinema Novo
Spouses	Nara Leão ​ ​ (m.1962;sep.1965)​ Leila Diniz ​ ​ (m.1971; died 1972)​ Cláudia Ohana ​ ​ (m.1981;div.1984)​
Children	2

Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira(born August 22, 1931) is a Portuguese-Brazilianfilm directorandscreenwriter.Guerra was born aPortuguesecitizen in Lourenço Marques (todayMaputo) inMozambique,when it was still a Portuguese colony.

Biography

Guerra studied atIDHECfilm school inParisfrom 1952. In 1958 he started his career as an assistant director in several French films. He subsequently immigrated toBrazil,where he directed his first feature film,Os Cafajestes(1962). It was entered into the12th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1964, Guerra directedOs Fuzis,which placed him in the forefront of the emergingCinema Novomovement. The film was entered into the14th Berlin International Film Festivalwhere it won theSilver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize.

After that he directed the international productionTendres Chasseurs(1969) starringSterling Hayden,andOs Deuses e os Mortos(1970). The tumultuous political landscape in 1970's Brazil forced Guerra to stop filming until 1976, when he directedA Queda.The film was entered into the28th Berlin International Film Festival,where it won theSilver Bear - Special Jury Prize.

In 1980 he returned to Mozambique where he shotMueda, Memória e Massacre,that country's first feature film. While in Mozambique, Guerra shot many short films and helped the creation of the National Institute for Cinema.

In 1982 Guerra shotEréndirainMexico,based on the work byGabriel García Márquez.He also directed the musical comedyA Ópera do Malandro(1985), based onChico Buarque's free theatrical adaptation ofBertold Brecht'sThreepenny Opera;the TV filmOs Amores Difíceis,another adaptation of García Márquez; andKuarup(1989). In 2000 Guerra'sEstorvowas nominated for theGolden Palmat the2000 Cannes Film Festival.It was Guerra's third nomination in the festival, afterErêndiraandKuarup.His 2004 filmPortugal S.A.was the only film he did in Portugal and entered into the26th Moscow International Film Festival.

Guerra has appeared in many films as an actor; he is perhaps best known to international audiences for his performance as the doomedPedro de UrsúainWerner Herzog'sAguirre, the Wrath of God(1972).

Personal life

In 1971, Guerra married Brazilian actressLeila Diniz.Diniz was killed the following year in the crash ofJapan Airlines Flight 471in India.

Filmography

Key

†

Indicates a work made for TV

‡

Indicates a short film

List of films directed by Ruy Guerra

Year	Original title	English release title	Language(s)	Notes
1954	Quand Le Soleil Dort‡		French	French production.
1962	Os Cafajestes	The Unscrupulous Ones/The Miscreants/The Hustlers	Portuguese	Guerra's first Brazilian production.
1964	Os Fuzis	The Guns	Portuguese	Brazilian-Argentinian co-production.
1969	Ternos Caçadores	Sweet Hunters/Jailbird	Portuguese, English	Brazilian-French-Panamanian co-production.
1970	Os Deuses e os Mortos	Of Gods and the Undead/Gods and the Dead	Portuguese
1978	A Queda	The Fall	Portuguese	Co-directed withNelson Xavier.
1979	Mueda, Memória e Massacre	Mueda, Memory and Massacre	Portuguese	Mozambican production.
1981	Histoires extraordinaires‡		French	French TV series. Director ofLa lettre voléeepisode.
1981	A Carta Roubada‡		Portuguese	Portuguese production.
1983	Eréndira	Eréndira	Portuguese, Spanish	West German-French-Mexican co-production.
1986	Ópera do Malandro	Malandro	Portuguese	Brazilian-French co-production.
1987	Fábula de la Bella Palomera/A Bela Palomera	Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier	Portuguese	Brazilian-Spanish co-production.
1989	Kuarup	Kuarup	Portuguese
1992	Me Alquilo Para Soñar		Spanish	Cuban-Spanish co-production. TV miniseries, 6 episodes.
2000	Monsanto	Monsanto	Portuguese	Portuguese production. TV movie.
2000	Estorvo	Turbulence	Portuguese	Brazilian-Cuban-Portuguese co-production.
2004	Portugal S.A.	Portugal S.A.	Portuguese	Portuguese production.
2006	O Veneno da Madrugada	In Evil Hour	Portuguese, Spanish	Brazilian-Argentinian-Portuguese co-production.
2018	Quase Memória	Oblivious Memory	Portuguese

See also

• S.O.S. Noronha(1957)

Further reading

• Schneider, Steven Jay, ed. (2007).501 Movie Directors.London: Cassell Illustrated. p. 349.ISBN9781844035731.OCLC1347156402.

External links

• Ruy GuerraatIMDb