Known For
Directing
Born
Mar 06, 1938
Died
Feb 22, 2022
Place of Birth
Poções, Bahia, Brazil
Credits
44 titles
Geraldo Sarno
Biography
Geraldo Sarno (6 March 1938 – 22 February 2022) was a Brazilian documentarist, screenwriter and film director. Born in Poções, after studying law at the Universidad del Salvador Sarno moved to São Paulo where he became an assistant of Thomaz Farkas. 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. 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". In 2008, he won the award for best direction at the Brasília Film Festival for the film Tudo Isto Me Parece Um Sonho, while in 2010 his film O Último Romance de Balzac was awarded the Special Jury Award at the Gramado Film Festival.
Known For
Filmography
Dois Sertões
Self
Sertânia
Director
Cinema Novo
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
A Linguagem do Cinema II
Director
Reviramundo
Self
Balzac's Last Novel
Director
Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho
Himself
Eu Carrego um Cinema Dentro de Mim
himself
Milagrez
Self
Depois do Transe
Self
Ana Carolina no País do Cinema
Director
A Linguagem do Cinema
Writer
50 minutos e 23 segundos com Júlio Bressane
Director
Mídia, mentiras e democracia: zona de fronteira
Director
Deus é um Fogo
Director
A Terra Queima
Director
O côco do Macalé
Director
Eu Carrego um Sertão Dentro de Mim
Director
Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
Director
Plantar nas Estrelas
Writer
Iaô: A iniciação num terreiro Gege Nagô
Writer
Espaço Sagrado
Director
Segunda-Feira
Director
Casa Grande e Senzala
Director
O Picapau Amarelo
Director
Semana de Arte Moderna
Director
Padre Cícero
Director
Monteiro Lobato
Director
Casa de Farinha
Director
O Engenho
Director
Viva Cariri
Director
Os Imaginários
Director
A Cantoria
Director
Jornal do Sertão
Director
Vitalino/Lampião
Director of Photography
Dramática Popular
Director
True Brazil
Director
The Outsiders
Editor
Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring
Producer
Auto de Vitória
Director
Roda & Outras Estórias
Writer
Viramundo
Director
El acoso
Assistant Director of Photography
La decisión
Assistant Director