Directing · b. 1928 · 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 adapta...

Directed

Quincas Borba 1988 A Construção da Liberdade 1985 Nasce uma Mulher 1983 Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema 1981 Erotic Stories 1980 Rain Lovers 1979 As Três Mortes de Solano 1976 Vozes do Medo 1972 Um Anjo Mau 1971 A João Guimarães Rosa 1968 The Naked Man 1968 Embu 1968 As Cariocas 1966 The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga 1965 Primeira Chance 1963 O Grande Momento 1958

Acting

The Good Cinema Self 2021 Ozualdo Candeias and the Cinema Himself (archive footage) 2013

Other Credits

Stop 88 Screenplay 1978 O Predileto Screenplay 1975 Ponto Final Screenplay 1975 Lost Love Juliana Screenplay 1970 Bebel, Garota Propaganda Writer 1967 Viramundo Assistant Editor 1965 Subterrâneos do Futebol Assistant Editor 1965 Gimba, Presidente dos Valentes Screenplay 1963

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