Domingos de Oliveira

Domingos José Soares de Oliveira September 28 1936 March 23 2019 was a Brazilian actor playwright stage director TV host poet and filmmaker After getting a bachelors degree in Engineering he got involved in amateur theatre and soon started to get involved with cinema specially with the Brazilian New Wave Cinema Novo movement He served as assistant director to Joaquim Pedro de Andrade in short films Manuel Bandeira o Poeta do Castelo and Couro de Gato and debuted as a film director with 1966s Todas as Mulheres do Mundo After that Oliveira wrote over 20 stage plays directed 18 films and hosted 3 TV shows all in which he constantly worked with his partner Priscilla Rozenbaum For his plays and occasionally selfstarred very lowbudget films often deal with themes of love and sex in a humorous and intelligent key he became known as the Brazilian Woody Allen During his late years Oliveira struggled with Parkinsons Disease but kept working until his passing in March 2019