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Helena Ignez
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Helena Ignez (Salvador, May 23, 1939) is a Brazilian actress and filmmaker.
Helena was born in Salvador, Bahia and was attending her second year of law school when she fell in love with theater and decided to study the Dramatic Arts at the Federal University of Bahia. At the time, the Bahian theater scene was breaking with traditional Brazilian theater and experiencing strong influence from the young vanguard. She first appeared on the screen in Glauber Rocha's short film "Pátio".
Helena acted in a few films associated with the Cinema Novo movement, such as "A Grande Feira" (1961), "Assalto ao Trem Pagador" (1962), and "O Padre e a Moça" (1966) before playing Janete Jane in O Bandido da Lu…
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Helena Ignez (Salvador, May 23, 1939) is a Brazilian actress and filmmaker. Helena was born in Salvador, Bahia and was attending her second year of law school when she fell in love with theater and decided to study the Dramatic Arts at the Federal University of Bahia. At the time, the Bahian theater scene was breaking with traditional Brazilian theater and experiencing strong influence from the young vanguard. She first appeared on the screen in Glauber Rocha's short film "Pátio". Helena acted in a few films associated with the Cinema Novo movement, such as "A Grande Feira" (1961), "Assalto ao Trem Pagador" (1962), and "O Padre e a Moça" (1966) before playing Janete Jane in O Bandido da Luz Vermelha by Rogério Sganzerla. After this film, she would perform in some most significant films in the Cinema Marginal movement, which directly opposed the critically acclaimed Cinema Novo -- the most remarkable being her role as Ângela Carne e "Osso in A Mulher de Todos" (1969). She also was a financial partner of Rogério Sganzerla and fellow Cinema Marginal filmmaker Júlio Bressane in the short-lived, although prolific, Belair production company. Between 1968 and 1970, Sganzerla and Ignez made almost a dozen films together and were also married and had two children -- one of which would become actress Djin Sganzerla. As a filmmaker, Ignez has directed 7 films, the most notable being "Luz das Trevas" (2010), a sequel to Sganzerla's debut feature "O Bandido da Luz Vermelha" (1968).
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Nem Tudo é Paz e Amor
as Self
Pioneiras do Cinema
América do Sol
as Sonia Silk
A Film to Remind Us of Utopia
as Self (archive footage)
Garden of Silences
Eclipse
as Dona da Kitnet
Fernando Coni Campos: Cada um Vive como Sonha
as Self
Cartas Para Rian
as Nair de Tefé
As Florestas da Noite
Helena! Cinema!
Nosferatu
Gravidade
Message from Sergipe
Trópico de Leão
as Medéia
Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans
as Dra. Marina Consiglio
Deuses da Peste
A Última Vanguarda
as Self
If I'm Here It Is by Mystery
as Arlete
Nelson Carneiro: Knight of Democracy
as Self
Helena de Guaratiba
as Helena
O Mel é Mais Doce Que o Sangue
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Joy Is the Acid Test
as Jarda Ícone
The Mother
as Dulce
The Welles Raft
as Herself
Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú
as Voiceover
Um Documentário Brasileiro
as Self
The Good Cinema
Subterrânea
as Senhora Ônibus
Benjamim Zambraia e o Autopanóptico
as Mother
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
as Self
Mulher Oceano
as Mulher Caminhando de Costas (uncredited)
Race Antenna
as Self
The Lady Who Died in the Trailer
Esse fim de semana vou me dedicar as paredes
Fogo Baixo, Alto Astral
Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso
Natureza Morta
as Narradora 3
Rio de Topless
as Self
Extracts
Notícias do Fim do Mundo
Flesh
as (voice)
Fakir
as Narrator
In Memoriam: O Roteiro do Gravador
A Mulher da Luz Própria
as Self
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
as Self (archive footage)
Bring me the Head of Carmen M.
as Diretora
My Calendar Girl
as Helena / Palestrante (voz)
O Desmonte do Monte
Antes do Fim
Inauditoo
as Voice
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
Febre
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
as Self
Venus – Filly the Lesbian Little Fairy
as Narração
No Poster
O Cinema Foi à Feira
as Ela mesma
Ralé: The Lower Depths
as Sonia Silk
Love Film Festival
as Herself
The End of an Age
as (voz)
Estátua!
as Mãe (voz)
Paixão e Virtude
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
as Self
Ossos
as Voz Off
Desculpa, Dona Madama
as Patroa
Ugly, Me?
as Jarda
Poder dos Afetos
as Ritual Xamânico
Terno
as Mãe
No Poster
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
No Poster
A Balada do Provisório
as Provisório's Mother
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Avacalha e se Esculhamba
Hotel Atlântico
as Dona da Pousada
Belair
A Vermelha Luz do Bandido
Embodiment of Evil
as Cabíria
A Bela P...
Meu Mundo em Perigo
as Mãe de Ísis
No Poster
Helena Zero
Luz-Lux-Lúcia
A Miss e o Dinossauro
as Herself (archive footage) / (Voz em Off)
Retrato da Terra
as Self
The Sign of Chaos
as Guida
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
as Self
Abry
as Self
Reinvenção da Rua
as Herself
B2
São Jerônimo
as Marcela
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
as Self
Flying Geraldo
Scent of Gardenias
as Bandida
Oswaldianas
Perigo Negro
as Tiafa
Anônimo e incomum
It's Not All True
Spray Jet
as Bossy Lady
Mulheres de Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
A Man and His Cage
as Aeromoça
Um Intruso no Paraíso
Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
as Multiple Characters (Archive Footage)
Baron Olavo, The Horrible
as Isabel
The Rowdy Family
as Prostituta
No Way, Spider
No Poster
Carnaval na Lama
Copacabana Mon Amour
as Sônia Silk
The Monsters of Babaloo
Watch Out, Madame
as Empregada
The Woman of Everyone
as Ângela Carne e Osso
The Red Light Bandit
as Janete Jane
The Outsiders
Face to Face
as Luciana
O Engano
as Mulher do médico
The Priest and the Girl
as Mariana
Grito da Terra
as Mariá
Assault on the Pay Train
as Marta
A Grande Feira
as Ely
O Pátio
as The woman
Lost Media
as A Colecionadora
No Poster