ROBERTO SANTOS

DIRECTING

Roberto Santos Pinhanez (1928–1987) was a Brazilian film director, known for films like Matraga (A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga) and The Great Moment (O Grande Momento). Santos was born in a working-class suburb of São Paulo in 1928.

He started his cinema activities around 1952, in the first big studio built in Brazil, the Vera Cruz Studio.