Ruy Guerra

Ruy Guerra was born on 22 August 1931 in Lourenço Marques, today Maputo, then the capital of Portuguese Mozambique. A graduate in 1954 of the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris, he was an assistant on French films before settling in Rio in July 1958, where he took part in Cinema Novo. After independence, he helped create the National Film Institute in Mozambique. He adapted García Márquez in Mexico in the early 1980s and wrote, according to Transatlantic Cultures, songs with Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe GunsOs fuzisRuy Guerra · 1964Cinema
• Feature filmMueda, Memory and MassacreMueda, memória e massacreRuy Guerra · 1979Cinema