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Ruy Guerra

Ruy Guerra

Brazilian-Mozambican film director and actor
August 22, 1931 (93 years old)

House of Sand

V.O.: Casa de areia
Br. 2005. Chronicle by Andrucha Waddington with Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra. In 1910, a pregnant woman and her mother, abandoned in the middle of the Maranhao desert, learn to be isolated and to wait, against their will.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1986. Musical by Ruy Guerra with Edson Celulari, Claudia Ohana, Elba Ramalho. In Rio de Janeiro, in 1941, a mobster decides to seduce the teenage daughter of a German to get revenge on him.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1983. Mores drama by Ruy Guerra with Irène Papas, Claudia Ohana, Oliver Wehe. Forced by her grandmother, a teenage girl goes into prostitution.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1972. Science-fiction by Pierre Kast with Norma Bengel, Françoise Brion, Jacques Charrier. Six people in different countries receive a coded message leading them to the giant statues on Easter Island.
Runtime: 94 min.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

V.O.: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
All. 1972. History by Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski, Cecilia Rivera, Ruy Guerra. After crossing the Peruvian Andes, a Spanish expedition finds itself blocked by the jungle.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1971. Adventures by Serge Roullet with Ruy Guerra, Georges Selmark, Temour Diop. The captain of an American frigate discovers a Spanish slave ship whose captain and crew seem to be suffering from a strange disease.
Runtime: 80 min.

The Gods and the Dead

V.O.: Os deuses E Os Mortos
Br. 1970. Poetic drama by Ruy Guerra with Othon Bastos, Norma Bengell, Nelson Xavier.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1969. Science-fiction by Jean-Daniel Pollet with Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Duda Cavalcanti, Ruy Guerra. An alien crosses several eras of Brazilian history and witnesses little more than violence.

Sweet Hunters

V.O.: Ternos Caçadores
Pan. 1969. Poetic drama by Ruy Guerra with Maureen McNalley, Susan Strasberg, Sterling Hayden.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1957. Drama by Georges Rouquier with Jean Marais, Daniel Ivernel, Yves Massard. Radio station operators get into trouble with a gang of convicts.
Runtime: 100 min.

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