Alberto Cavalcanti

  • Portraits (3)

  • They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) (2)

  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) (1)

  • Stills (1)

Highlighted works

This short but potent film is an official classic of the British documentary movement, and an ‘oratorio of coal mining’.

This very accomplished documentary is an evocation of the spirit of London during the early days of WWII.

This little-known film makes the case for investment and legislation to benefit responsible road users – including the film’s sponsor, the General Post Office.

A small dragnet fishing vessel on the Viking Bank in the North Sea is the subject of this demonstration of the craft of documentary.

Filmography

1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
  • Dead of Night Directed by ['Christmas Party', 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy']
1947
1948
1949
1951
1952
1953
1954
1956
1957
1959
1961
1967
1969
1973
1977
1986
Unknown year

Related articles

From Sight & Sound magazine, January 1955.

From Sight & Sound magazine, Summer 1970.

Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti, a Brazilian who first made his mark in films with the French avant-garde in the 1920s, spent sixteen of his most creative years in England.

More than any other director bar Hitchcock, the Brazilian Alberto Cavalcanti had a profound influence on British film-making in the 1930s and 40s. But he remains an unjustly overlooked figure, says Nick James.