Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1928-04-15 (59 years old)
Deathday
1987-05-07
Place of Birth
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Also known As
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Roberto Santos Pinhanez (1928–1987) was a Brazilian film director, known for films like Matraga (A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga) and The Great Moment (O Grande Momento). Santos was born in a working-class suburb of São Paulo in 1928. He started his cinema activities around 1952, in the first big studio built in Brazil, the Vera Cruz Studio. In 1956, Santos made his first movie, O Grande Momento (The Great Moment), the first neo-realistic movie made in Brazil. In 1965, Roberto Santos adapted a short novel by Guimaraes Rosa, A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga (Matraga), the only successful adaptation to cinema of a work by Guimaraes Rosa, the mo...
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1965
as Associate Producer
1975
as Screenplay
1981
as Writer
1963
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1958
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1971
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1971
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1979
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1979
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1980
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1967
as Executive Producer
1967
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1983
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1970
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1972
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1966
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1965
as Assistant Editor
1976
as Dialogue
1988
as Executive Producer
1985
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1975
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1963
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1983
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1988
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1988
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1963
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