Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias (Cajobi, November 5, 1918 – Sao Paulo, February 8, 2007) was a Brazilian filmmaker, a pioneer of the Brazilian marginal cinema.
From humble origins, Ozualdo was a soldier and truck driver before starting his film career in 1955 with the short film Tambau-Cidade dos Milagres, which already had elements common to his work like irony and provocation.
His masterpiece was A Margem, 1967, which paved the way for the movement of the marginal cinema, with the names like Ozualdo, João Silvério Trevisan, Júlio Bressane and Rogério Sganzerla, Andrea Tonacci, among others. In 1968, he produced the film Zé do Caixão: O Acordo, a segment of José Mojica Marins’ Trilogia de Terror. Still with Mojica, he co-directed Ritual dos Sádicos, produced in 1969 but only released in 1982 by the Censorship. His last film was O Vigilante (1992).
Averse to interviews, the filmmaker’s last appearance was in the video… read more
Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias (Cajobi, November 5, 1918 – Sao Paulo, February 8, 2007) was a Brazilian filmmaker, a pioneer of the Brazilian marginal cinema.
From humble origins, Ozualdo was a soldier and truck driver before starting his film career in 1955 with the short film Tambau-Cidade dos Milagres, which already had elements common to his work like irony and provocation.
His masterpiece was A Margem, 1967, which paved the way for the movement of the marginal cinema, with the names like Ozualdo, João Silvério Trevisan, Júlio Bressane and Rogério Sganzerla, Andrea Tonacci, among others. In 1968, he produced the film Zé do Caixão: O Acordo, a segment of José Mojica Marins’ Trilogia de Terror. Still with Mojica, he co-directed Ritual dos Sádicos, produced in 1969 but only released in 1982 by the Censorship. His last film was O Vigilante (1992).
Averse to interviews, the filmmaker’s last appearance was in the video-documentary Ozualdo Candeias: vida e obra marginal (2006), produced by three students of Journalism at PUC Campinas. Ozualdo died on the afternoon of February 8, 2007, at 88 years-old, two months after his last interview.
