Brazilian President Lula Inácio Lula da Silva declares three days of mourning after Barreto's death, calling him ‘the most important producer in Brazilian cinema over the last 50 years
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Luiz Carlos Barreto Luiz Carlos Barreto, one of the driving forces of the Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s and 1970s, died in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, July 22, at the age of 98.
In reaction – and it’s a measure of the huge regard with which Barreto was held in his native Brazil and beyond – Brazilian President Lula Inácio Lula da Silva declared July 22 three days of national mourning in his honor, which means the national flag will be flown at half-mast.
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