RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — One of Brazil’s most influential film makers, Hector Babenco, died in Sao Paulo at age 70.
An employee of his film company told The Associated Press that he had a heart attack.
Babenco, who died Wednesday, was nominated in 1985 for an Oscar for his film “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”
Born in Buenos Aires to a Polish Jewish mother and Argentine father of Ukrainian Jewish origin, Babenco came to Brazil in 1969 and adopted the country as his own.
He once described his childhood self as “a chubby Jew in a Nazi country,” reported the Brazilian Israelite Confederation …read more
Source: JTA
