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Filmmaker · Brazil

Anselmo Duarte

Died in 2009

Anselmo Duarte was born on 21 April 1920 in Salto, in the State of São Paulo. An actor in the 1940s and 1950s, notably in the popular comedies of Atlântida and Vera Cruz, he moved into directing in 1957 with a comedy. His second film won him in 1962 the supreme award at Cannes. According to InfoEscola, he later clashed with Cinema Novo, which criticised his work, and sat on the Cannes jury in 1971. He directed or acted until the end of the 1980s, and died in São Paulo on 7 November 2009, as a result of a stroke.

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