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name: "Anselmo Duarte"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "21 April 1920"
died: "7 November 2009"
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# Anselmo Duarte

## Identity

Anselmo Duarte

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anselmo-duarte
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anselmo-duarte
- **IMDb ID:** nm0239063
- **TMDB ID:** 1023462
- **Wikidata ID:** Q569649
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselmo_Duarte, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q569649, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0239063/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1023462

Director. Born 21 April 1920 in Salto, São Paulo, Brazil. Died 7 November 2009.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 21 April 1920, Salto, São Paulo, Brazil
- **Died:** 7 November 2009
- **Also known as:** Ансельмо Дуарти, Ансельмо Дуарте
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselmo_Duarte, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q569649, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0239063/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1023462

## Biography

Anselmo Duarte was a Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director. Born in Salto, São Paulo, he began his career as a leading man in popular musical comedies known as chanchadas before making his directorial debut with *Absolutamente Certo* (1957), in which he also starred.

He is best known for *O Pagador de Promessas* (1962, also released as *The Given Word*), which he directed and co-wrote. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, the only Brazilian feature to receive the award. Duarte received Brazil's Order of Cultural Merit and other honours; he died in São Paulo in 2009.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Given Word* (1962), Fi1m 76, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-given-word.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Golpe de Vista* (2024), as (archive footage)
- *Brasa Adormecida* (1986), Actor
- *Estou com AIDS* (1986), Actor
- *Tensão no Rio* (1984), as Presidente da Valdivía
- *Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema* (1981), Actor
- *Embalos Alucinantes: A Troca de Casais* (1979), as Felipe
- *O Caçador de Esmeraldas* (1979), Screenplay
- *Feijão Maravilha* (1979), series, as Trindade (José Trindade Duarte / José Francisco Trindade)
- *Os Trombadinhas* (1979), Director, Production Design
- *A Casa das Tentações* (1977), Actor
- *O Crime do Zé Bigorna* (1977), Director, Writer
- *Ninguém Segura Essas Mulheres* (1976), Director
- *Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente* (1976), as Atílio · Director, Writer
- *Paranóia* (1976), Actor
- *Assim Era a Atlântida* (1975), Actor
- *Noiva da Noite - O Desejo de 7 Homens* (1974), Actor
- *O Marginal* (1974), as Lemos
- *O Descarte* (1973), Director, Screenplay
- *Independence or Death!* (1972), as Gonçalves Ledo · Screenplay
- *Brazil in Cannes* (1971), Actor
- *A Certain Captain Rodrigo* (1971), Director, Writer
- *Quelé do Pajeú* (1969), Director, Screenplay
- *O Impossível Acontece* (1969), Director, Writer
- *Os Carrascos Estão Entre Nós* (1968), Producer
- *A Madona de Cedro* (1968), as Adriano Mourão · Production Coordinator
- *Juventude e Ternura* (1968), as Estênio
- *A Espiã que Entrou em Fria* (1967), Actor
- *Case of the Naves Brothers* (1967), as Lieutenant
- *The Obsessed of Catulé* (1965), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Given Word* (1962), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-given-word.md)
- *As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor* (1961), as Daniel das Dornas · Screenplay
- *Un rayo de luz* (1960), as Pablo
- *O Cantor e o Milionário* (1958), as Tito Livio
- *Absolutely Right* (1957), as Zé do Lino · Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Scarlet Macaw* (1957), as Tenente Luís
- *Depois Eu Conto* (1956), as Zé da Bomba · Writer, Editor, Associate Producer
- *O Diamante* (1955), Actor
- *Carnival on Mars* (1955), Screenplay
- *Carioca Symphony* (1955), as Ricardo
- *The Landowner's Daughter* (1953), as Rodolfo Fontes
- *Veneno* (1952), as Hugo
- *Appassionata* (1952), as Pedro
- *Tico-Tico no Fubá* (1952), as Zequinha de Abreu
- *Maior Que o Ódio* (1951), Actor
- *The Shadow of Another* (1950), Actor
- *Don't Tell Me Goodbye* (1950), Actor
- *Aviso aos Navegantes* (1950), as Alberto
- *Pinguinho de Gente* (1949), Actor
- *Terra Violenta* (1949), as Dr. Carlos
- *O Caçula do Barulho* (1949), Actor
- *Carnaval no Fogo* (1949), as Ricardo · Writer
- *Minas Conspiracy* (1948), Actor
- *Querida Suzana* (1947), Actor
- *It's All True* (1943), Actor
- *Senhora*, as Fernando Rodrigues de Seixas

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) 2008: Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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