Anselmo Duarte ( ; April 21 , 1920 &ndash; November 7 , 2009 ) was a Brazilian actor , screenwriter and film director . His film '' O Pagador de Promessas '' ( 1962 ) ( also " The Given Word " and " The Keeper of Promisses " ) won the Golden Palm at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival , becoming , to date , the only Brazilian feature film to be so distinguished and the first Cannes ' Southern Hemisphere Golden Palm for best feature film . The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . In 1962 " O Pagador de Promessas " was also awarded best film and best musical score at the San Francisco international film festival and best film at the Acapulco ( Mexico ) , Cartagena ( Colombia ) , Karlovy Vary ( Czechoslovakia ) and Edinburgh ( Scotland ) international film festivals . His 1964 film ¨ Vereda da Salvação " - '' The Obsessed of Catule '' was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival . He also was a freemason
1962 Cannes Film Festival
1962 Cannes Film Festival
Anselmo Duarte