Ruy Guerra

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-08-22 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

Maputo, Moçambique

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).

Production

1954

1992

2004

Portugal S.A.

as Director

1962

1986

Malandro

as Producer

2000

Turbulence

as Writer

1983

Erendira

as Director

1986

Malandro

as Writer

1986

Malandro

as Director

1964

The Guns

as Director

1964

The Guns

as Screenplay

1976

The Fall

as Writer

1976

The Fall

as Director

1989

Kuarup

as Director

1970

1970

2000

Turbulence

as Director

1964

The Guns

as Editor

1989

Kuarup

as Writer

1989

Kuarup

as Producer

2006

In Evil Hour

as Director

2018

Oblivious Memory

as Director

1970

Sweet Hunters

as Director

2006

In Evil Hour

as Writer

1982

Mueda, Memory and Massacre

as Director of Photography

2015

The Mirror

as Consulting Editor

1963

The Beggars

as Editor

1964

1976

The Fall

as Music

1962

1996

The Jew

as Editor

1976

The Fall

as Editor

2000

Monsanto

as Director

1970

Sweet Hunters

as Writer

1964

O Santo Módico

as Assistant Director

1962

Le tout pour le tout

as Assistant Director

1977

2025

In Pieces

as Director

2025

In Pieces

as Screenplay

2024

A Fúria

as Director

1981

La Lettre Volèe

as Director

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