Directing • AGE 85
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 ...


Cavalcanti
Self (archive footage)
2026

Brasília, segundo roteiro de Alberto Cavalcanti
Screenplay
1982

Le Voyageur du silence
Director
1978

Um Homem e o Cinema
Self
1976

Grierson
Self
1973

La visite de la vieille dame
Director
1971

Alberto Cavalcanti
Self
1970

Lettres de Stalingrad
Astronomer
1969

The Monster of Highgate Ponds
Director
1961

Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
Director
1960

Venetian Honeymoon
Director
1959

The Wind Rose
Director
1957

A Real Woman
Director
1955

Song of the Sea
Director
1953

Simão, o Caolho
Director
1952

Terra é Sempre Terra
Producer
1951

Angela
Writer
1951

Caiçara
Producer
1950

For Them That Trespass
Director
1949

The First Gentleman
Director
1948

They Made Me a Fugitive
Director
1947

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Director
1947

Dead of Night
Director
1945

Champagne Charlie
Director
1944

Three Songs of Resistance
Director
1944

Went the Day Well?
Director
1942

The Foreman Went to France
Associate Producer
1942

Yellow Caesar
Director
1941

Young Veteran
Director
1940

Salvage with a Smile
Associate Producer
1940

Cargoes
Producer
1939

The Chiltern Country
Director
1939

The First Days
Producer
1939

Spare Time
Producer
1939

North Sea
Producer
1938

N or NW
Producer
1938

Speaking from America
Producer
1938

Mony a Pickle
Director
1938

We Live in Two Worlds
Director
1937

Daily Round
Producer
1937

Rainbow Dance
Producer
1936

BBC: The Voice of Britain
Producer
1935

Coal Face
Director
1935

The Song of Ceylon
Sound Supervisor
1934

Granton Trawler
Sound Designer
1934

Coralie and Company
Director
1934

The Brazilian thing
Director
1932

Halfway Up the Sky
Director
1931

The Devil's Holiday
Director
1931

Little Red Riding Hood
Editor
1930

A Canção do Berço
Director
1930

Paris Cinéma
Self
1929

Captain Fracasse
Director
1929

Sea Fever
Director
1927

La P’tite Lili
Director
1927

Nothing But Time
Director
1926

Essais d'acteurs : Ève Francis
Director
1926

The Late Mathias Pascal
Art Direction
1925

The Inhuman Woman
Art Direction
1924

The Gallery of Monsters
Assistant Director
1924

The Flood
Production Designer
1924

El Dorado
Costume Design
1921