Geraldo Sarno

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1938-03-06

Deathday 2022-02-22 (83 years old)

Place of Birth Poções, Bahia, Brazil

Geraldo Sarno

Biography

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 direction at the Brasília Film Festival for the film Tudo Isto Me Parece Um Sonho, while in 2010 his film O Último Romance de Balzac was awarded the Special Jury Award at the Gramado Film Festival.

Known For

Director

2019
Sertânia

as Director

2016
2011
2001
1987
Deus é um Fogo

as Director

1984
A Terra Queima

as Director

1982
O Côco de Macalé

as Director

1979
1978
1975
Espaço Sagrado

as Director

1975
Segunda-Feira

as Director

1974
1973
O Picapau Amarelo

as Director

1972
1971
Padre Cícero

as Director

1971
Monteiro Lobato

as Director

1970
Jornal do Sertão

as Director

1970
A Cantoria

as Director

1970
Viva Cariri

as Director

1970
Os Imaginários

as Director

1970
Casa de Farinha

as Director

1970
O Engenho

as Director

1969
Vitalino/Lampião

as Director

1969
Dramática Popular

as Director

1968
True Brazil

as Director

1966
Auto de Vitória

as Director

1965
Viramundo

as Director

1963
La decisión

as Assistant Director

Writer

2019
Sertânia

as Screenplay

2011
2001
1984
A Terra Queima

as Writer

1979
1978
1973
1970
Viva Cariri

as Writer

1970
O Engenho

as Screenplay

1966
1965
Viramundo

as Writer

Actor

2016
Cinema Novo

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2014
Reviramundo

as Ele mesmo

2008
Milagrez

as Self

2006

Editor

2019
Sertânia

as Editor

1971
Padre Cícero

as Editor

1970
Viva Cariri

as Editor

1969
1968
The Outsiders

as Editor

Camera

1969
Vitalino/Lampião

as Director of Photography

Art

1965
El acoso

as Assistant Director of Photography