Ruy Guerra (Actor)

Reviews of Ruy Guerra Movies

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Movies starring Ruy Guerra have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 74%.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God - released in 1972 - is Ruy Guerra's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 608 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Ruy Guerra is Cinema Novo - released in 2016 - with a score of 69% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira (born August 22, 1931) is A Brazilian film director, screenwriter, film editor and an actor. Guerra was born a Portuguese citizen in Lourenço Marques (today's 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). It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1964, Guerra directed to The Automatic, which placed him in the forefront of the emerging Cinema Novo movement. The film was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize.

After that, he directed the international production, Tendres Chasseurs (1969) starring Sterling Hayden, and all The Gods and the Dead (the 1970's). The tumultuous political landscape in 1970's Brazil forced Guerra to stop filming until 1976, when he directed in The Fall. The film was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.

In 1980 he returned to Mozambique where he shot Mueda, Memory and Massacre, that country''s first feature film. While in Mozambique, the War-shot many short films, and helped the creation of the National Institute for Cinema.

In 1982 Guerra shot in Eréndira in Mexico, based on the work by Gabriel García Márquez. He also directed the musical comedy, The Opera of the Malandro (1985), based on Chico Buarque''s free theatrical adaptation of Bertold Brecht''s Threepenny Opera; the TV, film, Love Hard, another adaptation of García Márquez; and the Kuarup (1989). In 2000 Guerra''s Way was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. It was Guerra''s third nomination in the festival, and after Erêndira, and the Kuarup. His 2004 film Portugal S. A. was the only film he's made in the Uk, and entered into the 26th Moscow International Film Festival.

Ruy Guerra has acted in films with Klaus Kinski, Manfred Lehmann, Helena Rojo and Fernanda Montenegro.

Ruy Guerra has worked with these film directors: Werner Herzog, Andrucha Waddington and Eryk Rocha.