Santos was born in a working-class suburb of Sao Paulo in 1928 . He started his cinema activities around 1952 , in the first big studio built in Brazil , the Vera Cruz Studio . In 1956 , Santos made his first movie , '' O Grande Momento '' ( '' The Great Moment '' ) , the first neo-realistic movie made in Brazil . In 1965 , Roberto Santos adapted a short novel by Guimaraes Rosa , '' A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga '' ( '' Matraga '' ) , the only successful adaptation to cinema of a work by Guimaraes Rosa , the most important name in Brazilian literature in this century . The film was shown at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival
1966 Cannes Film Festival
1966 Cannes Film Festival
Roberto Santos