Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Actor)

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Movies starring Nelson Pereira dos Santos have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 69%.

Garden of War - released in 1969 - is Nelson Pereira dos Santos's highest rated movie, with a score of 70% based on 1 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Nelson Pereira dos Santos is Cinema Novo - released in 2016 - with a score of 69% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

Nelson Pereira dos Santos (22 October 1928 – 21 April 2018) was a Brazilian film director. He directed films such as Vidas Secas (Barren Lives), based on the book with the same name by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos. He also directed Rio 40°(his first feature film) which was released in 1955. The film is a chronicle of life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and it influenced several other directors, spurring the Cinema Novo moment.

His most well-known film outside of Brazil is Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, 1971). It was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival. The film takes place in the sixteenth century and details the alleged cannibalistic practices of the (now extinct) indigenous Tupinamba warrior tribe against the French and Portuguese colonizers of the Brazilian littoral. The film is something of a black comedy about European colonialism—one that makes satirical use of the Brazilian modernist trope of Antropofagia ("cultural cannibalism"), then recently revived by the Tropicalismo movement of the 1960s—as well as a bitter commentary on the historical genocide of the indigenous tribes in Latin America and the gradual destruction of their civilization.

Santos was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 2006 up to his death, result of multiple organ failure, on 12 April 2018. He was 89.

Nelson Pereira dos Santos has acted in films with Antônio Pitanga, Glauber Rocha, Ruy Guerra and Carlos Diegues.

Nelson Pereira dos Santos has worked with these film directors: Neville D'Almeida and Eryk Rocha.