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Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues (born May 19, 1940), is a Brazilian film director. He was born in Maceió, Alagoas, and is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement. He is popularly known for his unconventional, yet intriguing film techniques [according to whom?] among other film producers of the Cinema Novo ...
Carlos Diegues was born on 19 May 1940 in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. He is a producer and director, known for Xica (1976), O Maior Amor do Mundo (2006) and Better Days Ahead (1989). He has been married to Renata Maria de Almeida Magalhães since 1982.
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- Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
One of the Cinema Novo’s founding fathers and perhaps its most interesting exponent is Carlos Diegues who, with eight films in seventeen years, has come up with three masterpieces: Os Herdeiros ( The Inheritors, 1969), Joanna Francesca ( Joanna the Frenchwoman, 1973) and Bye Bye Brasil (1979).
Carlos José 'Cacá' Fontes Diegues is an award-winning Brazilian filmmaker and one of the founders of the Brazilian New Cinema (Cinema Novo) movement.
Carlos DIEGUES. A native of the Northeast, Carlos Diegues studied law in Rio de Janeiro, whilst also running film clubs. He became a film critic and directed short films imbued with social realism. A pioneer of Cinéma Novo, in particular with Glauber Rocha, he sought to imprint Brazilian filmmaking on the national consciousness.
May 14, 2018 · CANNES, France — Carlos (Cacá) Diegues presented his latest directorial feature at a Special Screening in Cannes. A celebration of magic, entertainment and cinema,” The Great Mystical...
O papel central de Carlos Diegues na cultura do país remonta aos primórdios do Cinema Novo, do qual foi um dos articuladores. Nascido em Maceió, em 1940, inaugurou sua carreira profissional em 1961, ao filmar “Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver”, episódio do longa Cinco vezes favela (1961).
