Alberto Cavalcanti

Alberto Cavalcanti , Scenario writer, Directing - producing and Realizer Brazil IEN, from its true name Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was born on February 6th 1897 with Rio de Janeiro (Brésil), and is deceased on August 23rd 1982 with Paris (France). In 1926, during the full period of the cinematographic avant-garde, Cavalcanti chooses French nationality.

Biography

Alberto Cavalcanti unloads with Paris with the beginning of the year 1920, and settles very early in France. It binds quickly to the middle of avant-garde of the time, and after various experiments as a decorator ( inhuman the of Marcel the Herbarium, fiction of 1923 dumb man, black and white), it begins his career as a realizer by composing its first film in 1926: Only the hours .

Authentic Alberto Cavalcanti main of the Brazilian cinematographic art of the 20th century, enraciné its reputation as a documentalist in Great Britain during the years 1930. Cavalcanti reinforced its fame by the production of some large films for the Studios of Ealing.

Cosmopolitan scenario writer, one discovers it in London at the sides of John Grierson in the years 1930 in the realization of documentary: Coal Face or Night Email Mail of night in 1936 - at which time it takes part in the great documentary-realistic movement, then at the end of the years 1940 in Brazil where it tries to give again fresh impulse with the national cinema. It will turn then to Germany FRG " Herr Puntila und center Knecht Matti" , Main Puntila and its servant Matti in 1956, Italy and in Brazil " O Canto C mar" , song of the sea in 1954. " Cavalcanti creates the prototype of the urban symphony, without history but not without internal frame, the documentary one dramatizes, for the first time can-être" (Jean-Wolf Passek).

Catalog of films

More one ten unseen films carried out during its exile in the USA.

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