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Alberto Cavalcanti
Date of Birth: 06 Feb 1897
Country: Brazil
Biography: Cavalcanti's early career began in France between 1920 and 1933, working as writer, art director and director. He directed the avant-garde documentary Rien que les heures. Moved to England in 1933 to join the GPO Film Unit under John Grierson. Moved to Ealing during the war, initially as head of 'Michael Balcon''s short film unit until 1946. He moved back to Brazil and made films with his own production company. Cavalcanti returned to Europe in 1954 and eventually settled in France.
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 25 (Director), 8 (Writer)
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A nurse is forced to lead a double life when a patient has a plan to marry her.
In the middle of northeastern jungle, a family perish of misery. The mother took the responsibility of the family since his father is crazy and isolated from everyone. One of the children, dissatisfied with this situation of poverty, dreams of going to southern Brazil in search of a wedding and a better life. (wikipedia.org)
A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation. (imdb)
Marina (Eliana Lage) is a beautiful and perfect young woman, daughter of leprous parents, living in an institution. She sees the chance to leave the place when the owner of a small shipyard in an island proposes to marry her. She accepts, marries him without love and moves to the small sea coastal village, where the gossiper dwellers make comments about her... (imdb)
One day, a troupe of travelling actors arrive and Sigognac, a penniless young aristocrat, invites them in his ruined castle, and forms an instant bond of friendship with them. He falls in love with the young ingenue, Isabelle, but a sense of duty to his ancestors prevents him from accepting an offer to travel with them to Paris. Later, he changes his mind, and he hastens after his new friends. When one of the actors dies, Sigognac takes his place, and becomes the Captain Fracasse...
Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty. (imdb)
The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea. (unifrance.org)
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