Roberto Pires

Roberto Pires was born in 1934 in Salvador. A photographer and self-taught, he designed himself an anamorphic lens system, the Igluscope, with which he made in 1959 the first feature film produced in Bahia. A central figure of the Bahian cycle of the late 1950s, alongside Glauber Rocha and the producers Braga Netto and Rex Schindler, he directed four feature films between 1959 and 1963. He later devoted two films to the nuclear danger, one of them to the Goiânia accident. He died of cancer in 2001.

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• CinemaA grande feiraRoberto Pires · 1961Cinema