Mário Peixoto

Filmmaker Mário PEIXOTO (1908, Belgium − 1992, Brazil) became a legend on the basis of one extraordinary film he made at the age of 22, the silent film Limite (1931). He had the advantage of a European education in the 1920s and was clearly receptive to modernist, avant-garde cinema. His literary ambitions, which went as far back as 1930 and included poetry, short stories, theatrical plays and a six-volume novel (The Uselessness of Everyone), did not gain a wider response from the public, either. Peixoto passed away on 3 February 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.