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Filmmaker · Brazil

Héctor Babenco

Died in 2016

Héctor Babenco was born on 7 February 1946 in Argentina, in Buenos Aires (in Mar del Plata according to Latino Life), to a Polish Jewish mother and a father of Ukrainian Jewish origin. He lived in Europe from 1964 to 1968, appearing notably in westerns shot in Spain, and then settled in 1969 in São Paulo, where he did odd jobs before moving into directing. Suffering from lymphoma, he underwent a bone marrow transplant in 1994. He died in São Paulo on 13 July 2016.

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