Helena Ignez
Acting
Born 1939-05-23
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
121 credits
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Helena Ignez (Salvador, May 23, 1939) is a Brazilian actress and filmmaker.
Helena was born in Salvador, Bahia and was attending her second year of law school when she fell in love with theater and decided to study the Dramatic Arts at the Federal University of Bahia. At the time, the Bahian theater scene was breaking with traditional Brazilian theater and experiencing strong influence from the young vanguard. She first appeared on the screen in Glauber Rocha's short film "Pátio".
Helena acted in a few films associated with the Cinema Novo movement, such as "A Grande Feira" (1961), "Assalto ao Trem Pagador" (1962), and "O Padre e a Moça" (1966) before playing Janete Jane in O Bandido da Luz Vermelha by Rogério Sganzerla. After this film, she would perform in some most significant films in the Cinema Marginal movement, which directly opposed the critically acclaimed Cinema Novo -- the most remarkable being her role as Ângela Carne e "Osso in A Mulher de Todos" (1969).
She also was a financial partner of Rogério Sganzerla and fellow Cinema Marginal filmmaker Júlio Bressane in the short-lived, although prolific, Belair production company. Between 1968 and 1970, Sganzerla and Ignez made almost a dozen films together and were also married and had two children -- one of which would become actress Djin Sganzerla.
As a filmmaker, Ignez has directed 7 films, the most notable being "Luz das Trevas" (2010), a sequel to Sganzerla's debut feature "O Bandido da Luz Vermelha" (1968).
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Filmography
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Acting
45 credits
O Cinema Foi à Feira
Lost Media
Estátua!
Ralé: The Lower Depths
Hotel Atlântico
Subterrânea
Fakir
Ugly, Me?
Tereza Batista
A Balada do Provisório
A Film to Remind Us of Utopia
Era Preciso Voltar
Primavera nos Dentes – A História do Secos & Molhados
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Eclipse
Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
Copacabana Mon Amour
Love Film Festival
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
A Grande Feira
Embodiment of Evil
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
The Red Light Bandit
Helena de Guaratiba
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Face to Face
A Última Vanguarda
The Welles Raft
Rio de Topless
Scent of Gardenias
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
The Rowdy Family
My Calendar Girl
Mulher Oceano
Flesh
Baron Olavo, The Horrible
Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans
Bring me the Head of Carmen M.
Meu Mundo em Perigo
Joy Is the Acid Test
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Assault on the Pay Train
Inaudito
The Priest and the Girl
Perigo Negro
Other credits
14 credits
Antes do Fim
Nosferatu
Paixão e Virtude
Extracts
Oswaldianas
Anônimo e incomum
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Helena! Cinema!
Belair
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
Watch Out, Madame
Gravidade
The Good Cinema
Notícias do Fim do Mundo
Directing
7 credits
Ralé: The Lower Depths
Fakir
Ugly, Me?
Canção de Baal
My Calendar Girl
Joy Is the Acid Test
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Writing
1 credit
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