Eduardo Coutinho

Eduardo Coutinho was born on 11 May 1933 in São Paulo. He studied law without finishing it, then cinema at the Idhec, in Paris. Back in Brazil in 1960, he joined the Popular Centre of Culture of the students' union, where he worked with Carlos Diegues, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade and Leon Hirszman. After a few fiction films, in 1975 he joined the team of the magazine Globo Repórter, where he shot in sixteen millimetre across the country and trained in documentary, to which he then devoted himself. He died at home in Rio on 2 February 2014, killed by his son.

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• CinemaTwenty Years LaterCabra marcado para morrerEduardo Coutinho · 1984Cinema