Glauber Rocha

Glauber de Andrade Rocha was a Brazilian film director, actor and writer. He was a key figure in the Cinema Novo movement, and directed two of the most influential Brazilian films, Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol and Terra em Transe . Both are considered to be some of the greatest films in Brazilian film history. He won the Prix de la mise en scne at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Antonio das Mortes.

Rocha was born in Vitria da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil and moved with his family to Salvador when he was onlyyears old, there studying in a famous and respected Presbyterian school.

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