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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.

Sweet Hunters

V.O.: Ternos Caçadores
Pan. 1969. Poetic drama by Ruy Guerra with Maureen McNalley, Susan Strasberg, Sterling Hayden.
Runtime: 105 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.
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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