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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 movement.
Carlos José Fontes Diegues OMC, conhecido por Cacá Diegues (Maceió, 19 de maio de 1940), é um cineasta brasileiro. Foi um dos fundadores do Cinema Novo. [1]
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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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).
May 20, 2024 · President of the Caméra d’or Jury in 2012, Carlos Diegues presented his last film O Grande Circo Místico (The Great Mystical Circus) In Competition at the Festival de Cannes in 2018, after Bye Bye Brasil (Bye Bye Brazil), Quilombo and Um Trem para as Estrellas.
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.
