The acclaimed Brazilian film director Eduardo Coutinho has been stabbed to death at his home in Rio de Janeiro.
Police say they believe the 80-year-old film maker was killed by his son, who then allegedly attacked his mother, before injuring himself.
Both are being treated in hospital.
Eduardo Coutinho was considered one of Brazil’s greatest documentary directors and had recently been invited into the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Among his best known films are Edificio Master, Twenty Years Later, Babilonia 2000 and Playing.
Brazilian media reports say the 41-year-old Daniel Coutinho suffers from mental health problems, BBC informs.
