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Teresa Madruga
Teresa Madruga (born 18 March 1953) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in 71 films and television shows since 1977. She starred in the 1983 film ''In the White City'', which was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Francisca'' (1981) * ''In the White City'' (1983) * ''Dead Man's Seat'' (1984) * '' Manoel's Destinies'' (1985) * '' Day of Despair'' (1992) * ''Abraham's Valley'' (1993) * ''Sostiene Pereira'' (1996) * '' Get a Life'' (2001) * ''Tabu'' (2012) * ''Imagine'' (2012) * ''Will-o'-the-Wisp In folklore, a will-o'-the-wisp, will-o'-wisp or ''ignis fatuus'' (, plural ''ignes fatui''), is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes. The phenomenon is known in English folk belief, ... (Fogo-Fátuo)'' - 2022 References External links * 1953 births Living people Portuguese film actresses People from Faial Island Portuguese television actresses 20th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horta (Azores)
Horta () is a municipality and city in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores encompassing the island of Faial. The population in 2011 was 15,038 in an area of The city of Horta itself has a population of about 7,000. Horta's marina is a primary stop for yachts crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and its walls and walkways are covered with paintings created by visitors noting the names of their vessels, crews, and the years they visited. Peter's Cafe Sport is a bar located across from the marina that houses the island's scrimshaw museum, a collection of artifacts carved from whale tooth and jawbone. Peter's is a point of reference for transatlantic yachters and sailors. History 15th through 17th centuries In 1467 the Flemish nobleman Josse van Huerter returned to Faial on a second expedition, this time disembarking along the shore of what would be known as Horta Bay. He built a small chapel which would later form the nucleus of a small community known as Horta, a name possibly deri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabu (2012 Film)
''Tabu'' is a 2012 Portuguese independent black-and-white drama film directed by Miguel Gomes, the title of which references F. W. Murnau's silent film of the same name. The film competed at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Alfred Bauer Award (''Silver Bear'' for a feature film that opens new perspectives) and The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) prizes. Plot ;Prologue A narrator, Miguel Gomes himself, reads in voice-over a poetic and philosophical text that invokes a legend in which the Creator orders, but the heart commands: the suicide of an intrepid explorer who, somewhere in Africa, long ago, plunges into a turbid river after a frustrated love affair and is devoured by a crocodile. Many swear they have seen a beautiful woman and a sad crocodile on the riverbank and that the two share a mysterious empathy. ;Part 1—Paradise Lost Three disparate women dwell in an old building in Lisbon. Aurora, an octogenarian living off her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Television Actresses
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'', written ca. 1845–1846 and published first in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular during the poet's lifetime and it remain ...'' * " A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Faial Island
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Film Actresses
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will-o'-the-Wisp (film)
''Will-o'-the-Wisp'' ( pt, Fogo-Fátuo) is a Portuguese musical romantic comedy film, directed by João Pedro Rodrigues and released in 2022.David Katz"Review: Will-o’-the-Wisp" ''Cineuropa'', 31 May 2022. The film stars Mauro Costa as Alfredo, the crown prince of Portugal whose passion for the environment leads him to become a fireman, where he falls in love with colleague Afonso (André Cabral). The film contains a number of choreographed dance numbers set in the firehouse, and blends in deliberate anachronisms such as Alfredo directly quoting parts of Greta Thunberg's 2019 speech to the United Nations when trying to defend his choice to his disapproving family even though the film is set in 2011. The film's cast also includes Joel Branco, Oceano Cruz, Margarida Vila-Nova, Miguel Loureiro, Dinis Vila-Nova, Luisa Castelo Branco, Vasco Redondo, Teresa Madruga, Ana Bustorff, João Mota, Paulo Bragança, Anabela Moreira, Raquel Rocha Vieira, Cláudia Jardim, Joana Barrios and Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imagine (2012 Film)
''Imagine'' is a 2012 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Jakimowski. Plot A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life. Cast * Edward Hogg as Ian * Alexandra Maria Lara as Eva * João Vaz as José * Melchior Derouet as Serrano * Francis Frappat as Doctor * João Lagarto as Brother Humberto Release Imagine was released in: * Poland on 13 October 2012 at the Warsaw Film Festival. Awards ;Polish Film Awards (2014) * Guillaume LeBras and Jacek Hamela were nominated and won the Eagle award for the Best Sound. ;Seattle International Film Festival (2013) * Edward Hogg was nominated for a Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actor at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2013. ;Warsaw International Film Festival Warsaw Film Festival ( pl, Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy, abbreviated as WFF) is an annual film festival held every October in Warsaw, Poland which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get A Life (film)
''Get a Life'' ( pt, Ganhar a Vida) is a 2001 Portuguese drama film directed by João Canijo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Rita Blanco - Cidália * Adriano Luz - Adelino * Teresa Madruga - Celestina * Alda Gomes - Alda * Olivier Leite - Orlando * Maria David - Lùcia * Yvette Caldas - Fàtima * Jinie Rainho - Jinie * Adélia Baltazar - Fernanda * Luis Rego - Adérito * Antonio Ferreira - Manuel * Tiago Manaïa - Alvaro * José Raposo * Teresa Roby Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; french: Thérèse) is a feminine given name. It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Greek θερίζω (''therízō'') "to harvest or rea ... References External links * 2001 films 2000s Portuguese-language films 2001 drama films Films directed by João Canijo Films produced by Paulo Branco Portuguese drama films {{Portugal-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azores
) , motto =( en, "Rather die free than subjected in peace") , anthem= ( en, "Anthem of the Azores") , image_map=Locator_map_of_Azores_in_EU.svg , map_alt=Location of the Azores within the European Union , map_caption=Location of the Azores within the European Union , subdivision_type=Sovereign state , subdivision_name=Portugal , established_title=Settlement , established_date=1432 , established_title3=Autonomous status , established_date3=30 April 1976 , official_languages=Portuguese , demonym= ( en, Azorean) , capital_type= Capitals , capital = Ponta Delgada (executive) Angra do Heroísmo (judicial) Horta (legislative) , largest_city = Ponta Delgada , government_type=Autonomous Region , leader_title1=Representative of the Republic , leader_name1=Pedro Manuel dos Reis Alves Catarino , leader_title2= President of the Legislative Assembly , leader_name2= Luís Garcia , leader_title3= President of the Regional Government , leader_name3=José Manuel Bolieiro , le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sostiene Pereira
''Sostiene Pereira'' (''Pereira prétend'' in French, ''Afirma Pereira'' in Portugal and ''Páginas da revolução'' in Brazil) is a 1995 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. It is based on Antonio Tabucchi's novel '' Sostiene Pereira''. Marcello Mastroianni won the David di Donatello as Best Actor. Plot In Lisbon, during the António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo dictatorship, Pereira ( Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist who works in the culture section of a newspaper, discovers the real dark side of the regime when he meets and helps an anti-fascist young man, Monteiro Rossi ( Stefano Dionisi). Cast * Marcello Mastroianni - Pereira * Joaquim de Almeida - Manuel * Daniel Auteuil - Dr. Cardoso * Stefano Dionisi - Monteiro Rossi * Nicoletta Braschi - Marta * Marthe Keller - Mrs. Delgado * Teresa Madruga - Portiera * Nicolau Breyner - Father António * Filipe Ferrer - Silva * João Grosso - Police Chief * Mário Viegas - Newspaper Editor * Manuela Cassola Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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