Geraldo Sarno (6 March 1938 – 22 February 2022) was a Brazilian documentarist, screenwriter and film director.
Geraldo Sarno | |
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.jpg) Sarno in 2012 | |
| Born | 6 March 1938 |
| Died | 22 February 2022 (aged 83) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
Life and career
editBorn in Poções, after studying law at the Universidad del Salvador Sarno moved to São Paulo where he became an assistant of Thomaz Farkas.[1] He made his directorial debut in 1965 with the Farkas-produced Viramundo, about the internal migration in north-east Brazil, which was one of the major themes in his documentary career.[1][2]
Among Sarno's best known works was the critically acclaimed film Colonel Delmiro Gouveia (1978), a mix between documentary and fiction which has been described as "the last really significant title of the Cinema Novo movement".[1] In 2008, he won the award for best direction at the Brasília Film Festival for the film Tudo Isto Me Parece Um Sonho,[2] while in 2010 his film O Último Romance de Balzac was awarded the Special Jury Award at the Gramado Film Festival.[1]
Sarno died from complications from COVID-19 on 22 February 2022, at the age of 83.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Rist, Peter H. (8 May 2014). "Sarno, Geraldo". Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 515–7. ISBN 978-0-8108-8036-8.
- ^ a b c Sbragia, Piero (23 February 2022). "Cineasta Geraldo Sarno morre aos 83 anos". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 27 February 2022.
External links
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Media related to Geraldo Sarno at Wikimedia Commons- Geraldo Sarno at IMDb
