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Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira (born August 22, 1931) is a Portuguese-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor. Guerra was born a Portuguese citizen in Lourenço Marques (today Maputo) in Mozambique, when it was still Portuguese colony. Guerra studied at IDHEC film school in Paris from 1952. In 1958 he started his career as an assistant director in several French films. Later on he immigrated to Brazil, where he directed his first feature film, Os Cafajestes (1962).
Born in Mozambique and educated at IDHEC in Paris, Ruy Guerra is a film director, screenwriter, and actor best known as a central figure in the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement.
He is recognized for directing socially and politically charged films such as The Guns and The Unscrupulous Ones, and for his acting role in Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
His work is synonymous with the Cinema Novo movement, emphasizing political critique and aesthetic experimentation within Latin American cinema.