Carlos Diegues

Carlos Diegues was born on 19 May 1940 in Maceió, in Alagoas, and grew up in Rio. A law student at the Pontifical Catholic University, he chaired the students' association and founded a film club with David Neves and Arnaldo Jabor, according to Poder360; he was also active in the Catholic youth movement and the popular culture centres, where he began to film. A member of Cinema Novo, which Poder360 has him co-found in the late fifties, he made seventeen fiction feature films. Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2018, he died in Rio on 14 February 2025.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaBye Bye BrazilBye Bye BrasilCarlos Diegues · 1980Cinema