Anselmo Duarte
Tônia Carrero, Anselmo Duarte in Tico-Tico no Fubá
Brazilian actor and filmmaker Anselmo Duarte, whose 1962 anti-religious intolerance drama Keeper of Promises remains the only Brazilian production to have won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, died yesterday, Nov. 7, at a hospital in the city of São Paulo. Duarte, who was 89, had suffered a massive stroke.
The São Paulo State native (born in the town of Salto, on April 21, 1920) began his film career as an actor in the 1940s. Although Orson Welles is supposed to have hired the newcomer to play a bit part as a dancer in his fictionalized "documentary" It’s All True in 1942, Duarte’s first important credits came out later in the decade, e.g., Edmond [...]