Jarbas Barbosa
by Andre Soares
Obit: Jarbas Barbosa, 76, a pioneering producer of Brazil’s Cinema Novo of the 1960s, died of respiratory problems on Dec. 10 in Recife. Among the films Barbosa produced or co-produced are the film noir Boca de Ouro / Golden Mouth (1963), directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos; Ganga Zumba (1963), about the life and times of a runaway slave, directed by Carlos Diegues; the sociopolitical drama Os Fuzis / The Guns (1964), directed by Ruy Guerra; Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol / Black God, White Devil (1964), the tale of a rural bandit, directed by Glauber Rocha; and the erotic comedy Xica da Silva (1976). His brother, Abelardo Barbosa, was a popular TV personality. Abelardo died of a heart attack in 1988.
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