Roberto Santos

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-04-15 (59 years old)

Deathday

1987-05-07

Place of Birth

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Roberto Santos

Biography

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...

Acting

2021

2013

Ozualdo Candeias and the Cinema

as Himself (archive footage)

Production

1965

1975

Ponto Final

as Screenplay

1958

1958

O Grande Momento

as Director

1968

The Naked Man

as Director

1971

Um Anjo Mau

as Writer

1958

O Grande Momento

as Producer

1971

Um Anjo Mau

as Director

1979

Rain Lovers

as Writer

1979

Rain Lovers

as Director

1980

Erotic Stories

as Director

1967

Bebel, Garota Propaganda

as Executive Producer

1983

Nasce uma Mulher

as Screenplay

1970

1972

Vozes do Medo

as Director

1966

As Cariocas

as Director

1965

Viramundo

as Assistant Editor

1988

Quincas Borba

as Executive Producer

1975

O Predileto

as Screenplay

1963

1983

Nasce uma Mulher

as Director

1988

Quincas Borba

as Director

1988

Quincas Borba

as Screenplay

1963

Primeira Chance

as Director

1966

As Cariocas

as Screenplay

1968

Embu

as Screenplay

1968

Embu

as Director

1978

Stop 88

as Screenplay

1968

The Naked Man

as Writer

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