Born in Brazil in 1897, Alberto Cavalcanti began his film career in France in 1920, working as writer, art director and director. He directed the avant-garde documentary _Rien que les heures with his own production company. However, his progressive political views caught the attention of the the right-wing Brazilian authorities, and Cavalcanti thought it prudent to return to Europe in 1954. He eventually settled in France, where he continued his work in television. He died in Paris in 1982.
Retrospective at the So Paulo International Film Festival.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 107-112. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
Best remembered as the director of the terrifying and now much copied ventriloquists dummy sequence in the 1945 Ealing Studio film Dead of Night .
