Ruy Guerra

Biography

Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira was born on August 22, 1931, in Lourenço Marques (today Maputo), Mozambique, to a Portuguese citizen family. He studied at IDHEC film school in Paris and began his career as an assistant director in French films before immigrating to Brazil, where he directed his first feature film, Os Cafajestes (1962). Guerra gained international recognition for his work in the Cinema Novo movement, winning awards for Os Fuzis (1964) and A Queda (1976).