| O Pagador de Promessas | |
|---|---|
 Original poster in Portuguese | |
| Directed by | Anselmo Duarte |
| Written by | Anselmo Duarte |
| Based on | O Pagador de Promessas by Dias Gomes |
| Produced by | Oswaldo Massaini |
| Starring | Leonardo Villar Glória Menezes Norma Bengell Dionísio Azevedo |
| Cinematography | H. E. Fowle |
| Edited by | Carlos Coimbra |
| Music by | Gabriel Migliori |
Production company | Cinedistri |
| Distributed by | Cinedistri Embrafilme |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
O Pagador de Promessas (Portuguese pronunciation: [u paɡaˈdoʁ dʒi pɾoˈmɛsɐs], Keeper of Promises[2]) is a 1962 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Anselmo Duarte, based on the famous stage play of the same name by Dias Gomes. Shot in Salvador, Bahia, it stars Leonardo Villar.[1]
The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival,[3] becoming the first film by a Brazilian director to achieve that feat. A year later, it also became the first Brazilian and South American film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 2015, the Brazilian Film Critics Association aka Abraccine voted Keeper of Promises the 9th greatest Brazilian film of all time, in its list of the 100 best Brazilian films.[4]
- ^ a b "O Pagador de Promessas" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
- ^ The title translates literally as The Payer of Promises, but the film has been known by several other names in the English-speaking world, such as Keeper of Promises, The Given Word and The Promise.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: O Pagador de Promessas". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- ^ "Abraccine organiza ranking dos 100 melhores filmes brasileiros". Abraccine - Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Cinema (in Portuguese). 27 November 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2024.