O Pagador de Promessas
1962 Brazilian film directed by Anselmo Duarte / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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O Pagador de Promessas (Portuguese pronunciation: [u paɡaˈdoʁ dʒi pɾoˈmɛsɐs], Keeper of Promises[2]) is a 1962 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Anselmo Duarte, based on the famous stage play of the same name by Dias Gomes. Shot in Salvador, Bahia, it stars Leonardo Villar.[1]
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Directed by | Anselmo Duarte |
Written by | Anselmo Duarte |
Based on | O Pagador de Promessas by Dias Gomes |
Produced by | Oswaldo Massaini |
Starring | Leonardo Villar Glória Menezes Norma Bengell Dionísio Azevedo |
Cinematography | H. E. Fowle |
Edited by | Carlos Coimbra |
Music by | Gabriel Migliori |
Production company | Cinedistri |
Distributed by | Cinedistri Embrafilme |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | Brazil |
Language | Portuguese |
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It won the Palme d'Or at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival,[3] becoming the first film by a Brazilian director to achieve that feat. A year later, it also became the first Brazilian and South American film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.