Alberto Cavalcanti

Director

Born: February 6, 1897
Died: August 23, 1982 (age 85)
From: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a professor he was expelled. His father sent him to Geneva, Switzerland on condition that he did not study law or politics.…

Filmography (65)

Cavalcanti (2026)
Self (archive footage)
Le Voyageur du silence (1978)
Director
Um Homem e o Cinema (1976)
Director
Grierson (1973)
Self
La visite de la vieille dame (1971)
Director
Alberto Cavalcanti (1970)
Self
Lettres de Stalingrad (1969)
Astronomer
The Monster of Highgate Ponds (1961)
Director
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti (1960)
Director
Venetian Honeymoon (1959)
Director
The Wind Rose (1957)
Director
A Real Woman (1955)
Director
Song of the Sea (1953)
Director
Simão, o Caolho (1952)
Director
For Them That Trespass (1949)
Director
The First Gentleman (1948)
Director
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
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Dead of Night (1945)
Director
Champagne Charlie (1944)
Director
Three Songs of Resistance (1944)
Director
The Sky’s the Limit
The Sky’s the Limit (1943)
Director
Went the Day Well? (1942)
Director
Alice in Switzerland
Alice in Switzerland (1942)
Director
Film and Reality
Film and Reality (1942)
Director
Yellow Caesar (1941)
Director
Mastery of the Sea
Mastery of the Sea (1940)
Director
Young Veteran (1940)
Director
French Communique
French Communique (1940)
Director
La Cause Commune
La Cause Commune (1940)
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