Joshua Sinclair
Joshua Sinclair( born May 7, 1953) is an American writer, producer, actor and director born in New York City.
The Obsessed of Catule
The Obsessed of Catule is a 1965 Brazilian drama film directed by Anselmo Duarte.
It was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.
Anselmo Duarte
Anselmo Duarte( April 21, 1920 – 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 Promises") 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.
The President of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, awarded Duarte the Order of The Cultural Merit, Brazil's highest cultural civilian honor, and the Governor of São Paulo, José Serra, awarded Duarte the Order of Ipiranga, which is the state's highest civilian honor.
Duarte was awarded titles of merit citizenship by numerous Brazilian municipalities including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salto, his birthplace.
In 2009, the municipality of Salto inaugurated a multimillion- dollar cultural and educational center named" Centro Cultural e Educacional Anselmo Duarte", housing a 500 audience amphitheater for film and theatrical events.
The center also displays for public view the original" Golden Palm" awarded to Duarte at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2008, at 88, Duarte founded a cultural organization( Instituto Anselmo Duarte) dedicated to restoring selected Brazilian films and creating special, free of charge, educational projects aimed at young filmmakers to improve their technical filmmaking skills.
After his death, his son, Ricardo Duarte, 69, became the institute's president.
Upon being diagnosed by suffering Alzheimer's dementia in 2002, Duarte spent his last 7 years of life under the care of his son, Ricardo, and his grandchild, Daphne, a preeminent Brazilian artist.
Anselmo had 4 children.
Reaching stage 6 on his Alzheimer illness condition a bladder cancer was detected which led to a severe blood hemorrhage, precipitating a heart stroke.
Although both the bladder cancer and heart conditions had been successfully treated, a sudden massive hemorrhagic brain stroke left the legendary Brazilian actor and filmmaker in a coma for 6 days.
Duarte died on November 7, 2009, due to complications from a stroke.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
Fred Roy Krug
Fred R. Krug is an American film and television producer- director born in Bern, Switzerland.
Constantin J. David
Constantin J. David (18 February 1886 – 19 February 1964) was a German journalist, film director, film producer, and actor.
He is also known for his marriage to the Hungarian actress, singer, and model Käthe von Nagy.
Countess Ironing-Maid
Countess Ironing- Maid( German: Gräfin Plättmamsell) is a 1926 German silent comedy film directed by Constantin J. David and starring Ossi Oswalda, Curt Bois and Robert Garrison.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Rudi Feld.
Sepideh Farsi
Sepideh Farsi is an Iranian film director, born in Tehran in 1965.
Yolonda Ross
Yolonda Ross is an American character actress, writer and director born (31 July 1974).
Jacques Décombe
Jacques Décombe is a French author, actor and director born in 1953.

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Countess Ironing-Maid or The Obsessed of Catule?
Answer: Countess Ironing-Maid