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Walter Salles
Birth at
12 April 1956
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Walter (Walter) Moreira Salles Jr. was born on April 12, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro to an influential banker and diplomat. The future director spent his childhood years in France and the United States. He began as a documentary director, and in 1991 made his debut in a feature film, putting the thriller High Art (another name - "To Show"). Salles continued to make documentaries for television, however, a few years later, he and director Daniela Thomas made his second feature film, Alien Country (1995),
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Walter (Walter) Moreira Salles Jr. was born on April 12, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro to an influential banker and diplomat. The future director spent his childhood years in France and the United States. He began as a documentary director, and in 1991 made his debut in a feature film, putting the thriller High Art (another name - "To Show"). Salles continued to make documentaries for television, however, a few years later, he and director Daniela Thomas made his second feature film, Alien Country (1995), which secured him wide recognition in his homeland. This crime story from the life of a young Brazilian was presented at some international European film festivals, and brought its creators the prize for best film at the festival in Bergamo. The real international success came to the director, after the drama from the life of ordinary people, the inhabitants of the social bottom “Central Station” (1998) came out on the screens. The film was nominated for Oscar, Golden Globe, César and the British Academy of Film and Television in the category Best Film in a foreign language and received many other cinematic awards, including prizes at film festivals in Berlin, San Sebastian and San Paolo. In the same year appeared the film “Midnight / Day One”, made in collaboration with Daniela Thomas in the framework of the television project “2000 eyes ...”, which included works by young filmmakers dedicated to the new millennium. The next work of the director was the dramatic story of blood revenge "The Last Sun" (2001), and a few years later the biographical film "The Motorcycle Diaries" (2004), dedicated to the young years of the famous revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, was released. The picture received the audience prize at the festival in San Sebastian and was nominated for the Golden Palm Branch at the Cannes Festival. In addition to directing, Sulles produced films of young Brazilian filmmakers: “Madame Sata” (2002) by Karim Ainouse, “City of God” (2002) by Kathi Lund and Fernando Mereillis, “The Lower City” (2005) by Sergio Machado.
In 2005, he first turned to the genre of mystical thriller, putting “Dark Water” - a remake of the film of the same name by Japanese director Hideo Nakata. This picture was not only the first English-language work for Salles, but also his debut in Hollywood. The following year, the film "Paris, I Love You" appeared on the screens, consisting of short stories shot by directors from different countries - a kind of look at the capital of France and its inhabitants. One of the novels of the film was the short film "Far from the sixteenth district", made by Salles together with his longtime partner Daniela Thomas.
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