Lúcia Murat

Director | Writer

Date of birth : 1949

City of birth : Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Lúcia Murat was member of the Brazilian leftist "guerrilha" in the hardest times of military dictatorship in Brazil (1968-1979). She was arrested and tortured in prison, and this experience is highly influential in all of her work. Undoubtedly Lúcia Murat is the most sensitive and critic female director in Brazil's new cinema.