Biography
His career began in France between 1920 and 1933, working as writer, art director and director. He directed the avant-garde documentary Nothing But Time (1930), a portrait of the lives of Parisian workers in a single day. He moved to England in 1933 to join the GPO Film Unit under John Grierson, working as sound engineer (Night Mail, 1936) then producer. He went to work for Ealing Studios during the war, initially as head of Michael Balcon’s short film unit until 1946, again working as an art director, producer and director. His notable films as a director include Champagne Charlie (1944), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) and They Made Me a Fugitive (1947). After the latter film he moved back to Brazil. There he made O Canto do Mar (1952) and Woman of Truth (1954) with his own production company. His progressive political views drew suspicion from the right-wing Brazilian authorities, and he returned to Europe in 1954. Cavalcanti eventually settled in France, where he continued his work in television. He died in 1982.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia
Director
Movies | |
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1971 |
La Visite de la vieille dame (TV movie) |
1969 |
Les Empaillés (TV movie) |
1962 |
Yerma |
1961 |
The Monster of Highgate Ponds |
1960 |
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti |
1959 |
Venetian Honeymoon |
1957 |
Windrose, Die |
1954 |
Woman of Truth |
1952 |
Simon the One-Eyed |
Song of the Sea |
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1949 |
For Them That Trespass |
1948 |
The First Gentleman |
1947 |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
They Made Me a Fugitive |
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1945 |
Dead of Night |
1944 |
Champagne Charlie |
The Halfway House |
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1942 |
Went the Day Well? |
1933 |
Coralie et Cie |
Le Mari garçon |
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1932 |
Le Truc du Brésilien |
1931 |
A Canção do Berço |
Halfway Up the Sky |
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Les Vacances du diable |
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1930 |
Dans une île perdue |
Toute sa vie |
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1929 |
Captain Fracasse |
La Jalousie du barbouillé |
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Le Petit Chaperon rouge |
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Le Train sans yeux |
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1928 |
Yvette |
1927 |
En rade |
Documentaries | |
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1977 |
Um Homem e o Cinema |
1967 |
The Story of Israel... Thus Spake Theodor Herzl |
1943 |
Waterlight |
1942 |
Alice in Switzerland |
Film and Reality |
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1941 |
Yellow Caesar |
1940 |
Young Veteran |
1939 |
A Midsummer Day's Work |
Men of the Alps |
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1938 |
Four Barriers |
1937 |
The Line to Tschierva Hut |
Who Writes to Switzerland |
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1936 |
Message from Geneva |
1935 |
Coal Face |
1934 |
New Rates |
1933 |
Plaisirs défendus |
1932 |
En lisant le journal |
Le Jour du frotteur |
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Nous ne ferons jamais le cinéma |
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Revue montmartroise |
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Tour de chant |
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1930 |
Vous verrez la semaine prochaine |
1926 |
Nothing But Time |
Short | |
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1940 |
Mastery of the Sea |
1938 |
Mony a Pickle |
1934 |
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs |
1927 |
La P'tite Lili |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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1960 |
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti |
1957 |
Windrose, Die |
1952 |
Simon the One-Eyed |
Song of the Sea |
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1951 |
Ângela |
1945 |
Dead of Night |
1931 |
Les Vacances du diable |
1929 |
Captain Fracasse |
La Jalousie du barbouillé |
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1927 |
En rade |
Short | |
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1934 |
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs |
Actor
Movies | |
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1969 |
Letters from Stalingrad |
Documentaries | |
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1986 |
He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life - a.f. |
1977 |
Um Homem e o Cinema |
1974 |
Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (series) |
1973 |
Grierson |
1929 |
Paris-Cinéma |
Short | |
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1934 |
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs |
Producer
Documentaries | |
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1940 |
Young Veteran |
1939 |
The City |
Editor
Movies | |
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1929 |
Le Train sans yeux |