Glauber de Andrade Rocha was a Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter.
14 Facts About Glauber Rocha
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Glauber Rocha was one of the most influential moviemakers of Brazilian cinema and a key figure of Cinema Novo.
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Glauber Rocha's film possess a staunch avant-garde and experimental nature, making of him a seminal figure of the new wave.
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Glauber Rocha's works are noted for their many political overtones, often addressing the passive-aggressive situation of the Third World, which Rocha referred to both metaphorically and objectively as "hunger" in his essay Estetica da Fome.
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Glauber Rocha won the Prix de la mise en scene at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Antonio das Mortes and the 1977 Special Jury Prize for Best Short Film for Di.
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Three of Glauber Rocha's films were nominated for the Palme d'Or, including Entranced Earth, which was awarded the FIPRESCI at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival and the Grand Prix of the Locarno Film Festival of the same year.
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Glauber Rocha was born in Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil and moved with his family to Salvador when he was only 9 years old, there studying in a well-known Presbyterian school.
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Glauber Rocha was very active in politics, a trait that would be strongly influential in his works.
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Glauber Rocha is famous for his film trilogy, made up of Black God, White Devil - perhaps his most acclaimed movie, nominated for the Golden Palm - Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes, award-winning for Best Director at Cannes.
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Glauber Rocha's films were renowned for their strongly-expressed political themes, often combined with mysticism and folklore, but for their particular style and photography.
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Glauber Rocha is regarded as one of the best Brazilian directors of all time and leader of the Cinema Novo movement, as well as a full-time polemicist.
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Glauber Rocha once said "I am the Cinema Novo", paraphrasing Louis XIV's famous quote.
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Glauber Rocha resisted in hospital for few days, but ultimately died on August 22,1981, at the age of 42.
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Glauber Rocha had been married three times and had five children.