Alberto Cavalcanti

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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. Cavalcanti chose to study architecture instead. At 18 he moved to Paris to work for an architect, later switching to working on interior design. After a visit back to Brazil he took up a position at the Braz…

  • Directing
  • Born 6 February 1897
  • Died 23 August 1982 (age 85)
  • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 93 credits

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Most-watched Alberto Cavalcanti films currently: Went the Day Well? (1942), Dead of Night (1945), The Inhuman Woman (1924), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947), The Late Mathias Pascal (1925).

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Selected TV credits: Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978).

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