Armando Robles Godoy

Armando Robles Godoy was born in New York on 7 February 1923, the son of the composer Daniel Alomía Robles and the Cuban Carmela Godoy; he arrived in Peru at the age of ten. He began medicine at San Marcos, moved to the humanities without finishing them, and lived for several years as a settler in the Amazon forest. A journalist at La Prensa, where he wrote about cinema, he came to directing in the mid-sixties. In 1966 he founded the country's first film academy-workshop, sat on the Moscow jury in 1971 and promoted the 1972 law on the short film. He died in Lima on 10 August 2010.

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• CinemaThe Green WallLa muralla verdeArmando Robles Godoy · 1970Cinema