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Alberto Seixas Santos
Alberto Jorge Seixas dos Santos (20 March 1936 – 10 December 2016) was a Portuguese film director. Biography Seixas Santos was born on 20 March 1936 in Lisbon, Portugal. Studied Historical-philosophical Sciences in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. In 1958, he started to work as a film critic. Studied in Paris, at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in 1962 and, in the next year, at the London Film School. Seixas Santos, who belongs to a generation of film club lovers, is part of the cinematic movement called Novo Cinema (New Cinema) and started to shoot documentaries - ''A Arte e o OfÃcio de Ourives'' and ''Indústria Cervejeira em Portugal'' (1968). In 1970, he was one of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Center. '' Brandos Costumes'', his first feature-film, shot between 1972 and 1975 and written together with the writers LuÃsa Neto Jorge and Nuno Júdice, draws a line between everyday life of a medium bourgeoisie fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the List of urban areas of the European Union, 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas - demographia.com, 06.2021 About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula, after Madrid and Barcelona. It represents approximately 27% of the country's population. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Workers' Day
International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, or the first Monday in May. Traditionally, 1 May is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. In 1889, the Marxist International Socialist Congress met in Paris and established the Second International as a successor to the earlier International Workingmen's Association. They adopted a resolution for a "great international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day. The 1 May date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later. The demonstration subsequently became a yearly event. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on "all Social Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Six" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by the National Fascist Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kramer
Robert Kramer (June 22, 1939 – November 10, 1999), born in New York and educated at Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ... and Stanford University, was an American film director, screenwriter and actor who directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999, most of them political cinema made from a left-wing point of view. His film ''À toute allure'' was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. He died of complications from meningitis. Filmography * ''FALN (film), FALN'' (1965) * ''In the Country'' (1967) * ''The Edge'' (1968) * ''The People's War'' (1970) * ''Ice (1970 film), Ice'' (1970) * ''Milestones (1975 film), Milestones'' (1975) * ''Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal'' (1977) * ''Guns (1980 film), Guns'' (1980) * ''À toute allure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Lourenço
Eduardo Lourenço de Faria GCSE, GCIH (23 May 1923 – 1 December 2020), best known as Eduardo Lourenço, was a Portuguese essayist, professor, critic, philosopher and writer. Early life Coming from a small village in Beira Interior, he is the eldest of the seven children of AbÃlio de Faria, Captain of Infantry, and Maria de Jesus Lourenço. He moved to Guarda in 1932 and entered the Military College in 1934, one year after his father left for Nampula, Mozambique. Career In 1940, a student at the University of Coimbra, he found there an open atmosphere conducive to cultural reflection which he would always pursue. He obtained a degree in Historical and Philosophical Sciences in 1946, and became assistant to the Faculty of Arts between 1947 and 1953, working with Joaquim de Carvalho. It was during this period that he published his first book, ''Heterodoxia'' (1949), which brings together part of his thesis, ''The Meaning of Dialectics in Absolute Idealism''. He also collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otelo Saraiva De Carvalho
Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho, GCL (; 31 August 1936 – 25 July 2021) was a Portuguese military officer. He was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon. After the Revolution, Otelo assumed leadership roles in the first Portuguese Provisional Governments, alongside Vasco Gonçalves and Francisco da Costa Gomes, and as the head of military defense force COPCON. In 1976, Otelo ran in the first Portuguese presidential election, in which he placed second with the base of his support coming from the far-left. In the 1980s he founded a leftist terrorist organization that sought to undermine the very democracy that resulted from the 1974 Carnation Revolution where he had had a leading role. Otelo was tried and sentenced for being a leading member of the terrorist group Forças Populares 25 de Abril, which killed 19 people in several terrorist attacks. In 1996, the Portuguese Parliament voted to pardon him and several others who had been sentenced for FP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acácio De Almeida
Acácio de Almeida (born 29 June 1938) is a Portuguese cinematographer best known for his work with João César Monteiro, Raúl Ruiz, Alain Tanner, Valeria Sarmiento and Rita Azevedo Gomes. Filmography * '' Past and Present'' (1972) * '' Brandos Costumes'' (1974) * '' Trás-os-Montes'' (1976) * '' Veredas'' (1978) * ''Silvestre'' (1981) * ''A Ilha dos Amores'' (1982) * '' Ana'' (1982) * '' City of Pirates'' (1983) * ''In the White City'' (1983) * '' Manoel's Destinies'' (1984) * ''Régime sans pain'' (1985) * ''Treasure Island'' (1985) * '' Mammame'' (1986) * '' A Portuguese Goodbye'' (1986) * ''A Flame in My Heart'' (1987) * '' The Mask'' (1988) * ''O Sangue'' (1989) * '' Etoile'' (1989) * ''Un Asunto Privado'' (1996) * ''The Mutants'' (1998) * ''Love Torn in a Dream'' (2000) * ''Rasganço'' (2001) * ''Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude'' (2002) * '' That Day'' (2003) * ''Second Life'' (2009) * ''Paixão Paixão may refer to: * ''Paixão'' (TV series), a 2017–2018 Portugue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solveig Nordlund
Solveig Nordlund (born June 9, 1943) is a Swedish-Portuguese filmmaker. Biography Nordlund grew up in Stockholm and has a BA degree in Art History from the University of Stockholm. In 1962, she met Alberto Seixas Santos, whom she married, and her interest in cinema grew. In 1970, this interest transformed into a profession when she became an assistant on several films: ''Quem Espera por Sapatos de Defunto Morre Descalço'' by João César Monteiro (1969–1970), ''O Recado'' by José Fonseca e Costa (1970–1971), ''Pedro Só'' by Alfredo Tropa (1970–1971), and ''Fragmentos de Um Filme-Esmola'' by João César Monteiro (1972). With '' Brandos Costumes'', by Alberto Seixas Santos (1973–1974), her name began to enter the credits as editor. She worked on editing the films of many directors, such as Manoel de Oliveira, João Botelho, Alberto Seixas Santos, and Thomas Harlan, as well as political documentaries. In 1973-1974 she received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarida Gil
Margarida is a Portuguese female given name, which is a variant of the name Margaret, and which also means " daisy flower" in Portuguese.''Behind the Name''"Given Name Margarida". Retrieved on 28 January 2016. The given name may refer to: * Margarida Cabral de Melo (1570–1631), Portuguese noblewoman *Margarida Cordeiro (born 1939), Portuguese film director *Margarida Teresa da Silva e Orta (1711–1793), Brazilian author *Margarida de Abreu (1915–2006), Portuguese choreographer *Margarida Marante (1959–2012), Portuguese journalist *Margarida Moura (born 1993), Portuguese tennis player *Margarida Penha-Lopes (born 1964), Portuguese Historical Sciences professor *Margarida Vila-Nova (born 1983), Portuguese actress *Margarida Xirgu (1888–1969), Spanish actress *Margarida Zelle (1876–1917), Dutch dancer and spy known as Mata Hari *Jorge José Emiliano dos Santos Jorge José Emiliano dos Santos (19 March 1954 - 21 January 1995) also known by his nickname, Margarida (mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Silva Melo
Jorge Freitas e Silva Melo (7 August 1948 – 14 March 2022) was a Portuguese actor, theatre director, writer, playwright and translator. In 1973 Melo founded the Teatro da Cornucópia with LuÃs Miguel Cintra LuÃs Miguel Valle Cintra (born 29 April 1949) is a Portuguese actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1970. In 1973 Cintra founded the Teatro da Cornucópia with Jorge Silva Melo. Selected filmography * ''A Ilha dos Amores'' (1982) .... He received critical acclaim for his work as a playwright. References External links * 1948 births 2022 deaths People from Lisbon Portuguese male film actors Portuguese theatre directors Portuguese film directors Portuguese film critics 20th-century Portuguese dramatists and playwrights Portuguese screenwriters Male screenwriters Commanders of the Order of Liberty 20th-century Portuguese male writers Portuguese male dramatists and playwrights {{Portugal-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João César Monteiro
João César Monteiro Santos (2 February 1939, in Figueira da Foz – 3 February 2003, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic. Life and career João César Monteiro was born into a family with anti-clerical and anti-fascist ideals. His family moved to Lisbon when Monteiro was 15 years old to enable him to continue his studies. In 1963, with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Monteiro traveled to Great Britain to study at the London Film School (known then as the London School of Film Technique). In 1965 in Portugal, he began work on his first film, '' Quem Espera por Sapatos de Defunto Morre Descalço'' (Who Waits for the Deceased's Shoes Dies Barefoot), which would not be finished for five years due to financial problems. At the same time, he made the short documentary "Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen", about the Portuguese poet. Monteiro also wrote film criticism for periodicals like ''Imagem'', ''Diário de Lisboa'' and ''O S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
