Dias Gomes
Dias Gomes was an important Brazilian playwright. He started writing plays at age fifteen and later wrote soap operas. He wrote the first-ever colored soap opera in Brazilian television, and the one w... Read more
Dias Gomes was an important Brazilian playwright. He started writing plays at age fifteen and later wrote soap operas. He wrote the first-ever colored soap opera in Brazilian television, and the one with the highest rating of all times. He was also a writer of numerous Brazilian TV shows, miniseries, and a few movies. His film “Keeper of Promises” was the first ever Brazilian movie to be nominated for an Oscar, and the only South American to ever win the Golden Palm in Cannes. Credits include ““A Revolução dos Beatos,” “O Santo Inquérito,” “O Bem Amado,” “O Rei de Ramos,” “Roque Santeiro,” “A Ponte dos Suspiros,” “Verão Vermelho,” “Assim na Terra como no Céu,” “Bandeira 2,” “O Espigão,” “Saramandaia,” “Sinal de Alerta,” “Expresso Brasil,” “Mandala,” “Araponga,” “As Noivas de Copacabana,” “Irmãos Coragem,” “Decadência,” “Fim do Mundo,” and “Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos.”