
Known for
Directing
Born
March 6, 1938
Birthplace
Poções, Bahia, Brazil
Died
February 22, 2022 (aged 83)
Geraldo Sarno (6 March 1938 – 22 February 2022) was a Brazilian documentarist, screenwriter and film director.
Born in Poções, after studying law at the Universidad del Salvador Sarno moved to São Paulo where he became an assistant of Thomaz Farkas. He made his directorial debut in 1965 with the Farkas-produced Viramundo, about the internal migration in north-east Brazil, which was one of the major themes in his documentary career.
Among Sarno's best known works was the critically acclaimed film Colonel Delmiro Gouveia (1978), a mix between documentary and fiction which has been described as "the last really significant title of the Cinema Novo movement". In 2008, he won the award for best...
2023
as Self
2020
Director, Screenplay, Editor
2016
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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Director
2014
as Self
2011
Director, Writer
2008
as Himself, Director, Writer
2008
as himself
2008
as Self
2006
as Self
2001
Director
2001
Writer, Producer, Director
2000
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Director, Writer
1987
Director
1984
Director, Writer
1982
Director, Writer
1980
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Director, Screenplay
1978
Writer, Director
1976
Writer, Cinematography, Producer, Director
1975
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Director, Writer