- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- April 15, 1928
- Place of Birth
- São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Died
- May 7, 1987
Roberto Santos
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 adaptation to cinema of a work by Guimaraes Rosa, the most important name in Brazilian literature in this century. The film was shown at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. During the late 1960s and 1970s, his career was marked by problems with censorship. Nevertheless, he directed six more movies, among them…
Filmography
movieThe Good Cinema
2021 · Self
movieOzualdo Candeias and the Cinema
2013 · Himself (archive footage)
movieQuincas Borba
1988 · Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay
Mais Luz
movieMais Luz
1986
A Construção da Liberdade
movieA Construção da Liberdade
1985 · Director
movieNasce uma Mulher
1983 · Screenplay, Director
movieChick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema
1981 · Writer, Director
movieErotic Stories
1980 · Director
movieRain Lovers
1979 · Writer, Director
movieStop 88
1978 · , Screenplay
movieAs Três Mortes de Solano
1976 · Dialogue, Director
movieO Predileto
1975 · Screenplay
Ponto Final
moviePonto Final
1975 · Screenplay
movieVozes do Medo
1972 · Director
movieUm Anjo Mau
1971 · Director, Writer
movieLost Love Juliana
1970 · Screenplay
movieThe Naked Man
1968 · Director, Writer
movieA João Guimarães Rosa
1968 · Director
movieEmbu
1968 · Screenplay, Director
movieBebel, Garota Propaganda
1967 · Writer, Executive Producer
movieAs Cariocas
1966 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga
1965 · Associate Producer, Writer, Director
movieViramundo
1965 · Assistant Editor
movieSubterrâneos do Futebol
1965 · Assistant Editor
Gimba, Presidente dos Valentes
movieGimba, Presidente dos Valentes
1963 · Screenplay
Primeira Chance
moviePrimeira Chance
1963 · Writer, Director
movieThe Grand Moment
1958 · Producer, Director, Writer