Leon Hirszman

Leon Hirszman was born on 22 November 1937 in Rio de Janeiro. Linked to the Centro Popular de Cultura of the students' union and to Cinema Novo, of which he was one of the leading figures, he made films in the early sixties about migrants from the Nordeste and the favelas of Rio, according to the journal Domínios da Imagem. A communist, he made workers the centre of his work and in 1979 filmed the workers' strikes in the ABC region of São Paulo, in a documentary that was not released until 1990. He died in Rio on 15 September 1987, of complications from AIDS.

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• CinemaThey Don't Wear Black TieEles não usam black-tieLeon Hirszman · 1981Cinema