Director
Roberto Santos
April 15, 1928 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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.
Often works with
Flávio Migliaccio
3 titles together
The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga, The Naked Man, The Grand Moment
Walter Forster
3 titles together
The Naked Man, As Cariocas, Quincas Borba
Joana Fomm
3 titles together
The Naked Man, Vozes do Medo, Bebel, Garota Propaganda
Marlene França
3 titles together
Quincas Borba, Nasce uma Mulher, Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema
Leonardo Villar
2 titles together
The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga, Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema
Jofre Soares
2 titles together
The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga, The Naked Man
Full filmography · 15
Quincas Borba
Director
1988
Nasce uma Mulher
Director
1983
Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema
Writer and Director
1981Rain Lovers
Writer and Director
1979
Stop 88
cast
1978
As Três Mortes de Solano
Director
1976
Vozes do Medo
Director
1972
Um Anjo Mau
Director and Writer
1971
The Naked Man
Director and Writer
1968
A João Guimarães Rosa
Director
1968
Embu
Director
1968
Bebel, Garota Propaganda
Writer
1967