Geraldo Sarno

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-03-06 (84 years old)

Deathday

2022-02-22

Place of Birth

Poções, Bahia, Brazil

Geraldo Sarno

Biography

Geraldo Sarno (6 March 1938 – 22 February 2022) was a Brazilian documentarist, screenwriter and film director. Born in Poções, after studying law at the Universidad del Salvador Sarno moved to São Paulo where he became an assistant of Thomaz Farkas. He made his directorial debut in 1965 with the Farkas-produced Viramundo, about the internal migration in north-east Brazil, which was one of the major themes in his documentary career. Among Sarno's best known works was the critically acclaimed film Colonel Delmiro Gouveia (1978), a mix between documentary and fiction which has been described as "the last really significant title of the Cinema ...

Acting

2006

2014

Reviramundo

as Ele mesmo

2008

Milagrez

as Self

2016

Cinema Novo

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Production

1987

Deus é um Fogo

as Director

2011

1969

Vitalino/Lampião

as Director of Photography

1965

Viramundo

as Director

1968

The Outsiders

as Editor

1966

1966

Auto de Vitória

as Director

1975

Espaço Sagrado

as Director

2011

1975

Segunda-Feira

as Director

1965

Viramundo

as Writer

1973

1973

1984

A Terra Queima

as Director

1984

1979

1970

1969

1968

True Brazil

as Director

1970

A Cantoria

as Director

1974

1970

Viva Cariri

as Writer

1969

1969

Dramática Popular

as Researcher

1970

Viva Cariri

as Director

1970

Os Imaginários

as Director

2001

1963

La decisión

as Assistant Director

1965

El acoso

as Assistant Director of Photography

1982

1978

1972

1970

Casa de Farinha

as Director

1971

Padre Cícero

as Director

1970

O Engenho

as Director

1970

O Engenho

as Screenplay

1970

Viva Cariri

as Editor

1969

1971

Padre Cícero

as Editor

2001

2019

Sertânia

as Screenplay

2019

Sertânia

as Director

2019

Sertânia

as Editor

1971

Monteiro Lobato

as Director

1965

1971

1971

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