Glauber de Andrade Rocha, Brazilian cineaste, one of the leaders of ‘cinema novo’ (new cinema), the avant-garde movement, was responsible for a large renovation of Brazilian cinema in the 1960s. He was one of the most polemic creators of national cinema.

Liêdo Maranhão de Souza was born in the neighbourhood of São José in the city of Recife, on 3 July 1925. He attended elementary and secondary schools in Recife, graduating in Dentistry fromthe Recife Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy in the late 1940s.