António Ferreira Gonçalves dos Reis, known as António Reis (27 August 1927 – 10 September 1991), was a Portuguese

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

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and producer,

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and

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. He was married to

Margarida Cordeiro Margarida Cordeiro (born 1939) is a Portuguese psychiatrist and film director from Mogadouro. The art concepts developed by her and her husband António Reis are called The School of Reis. Filmography * Jaime Jaime is a common Spanish and Por ...

, co-director of most of his films. He is considered one of the most important directors of his country, due to the originality of his style. He was a teacher at the

Lisbon Theatre and Film School The Lisbon Theatre and Film School (''Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema'') of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon inherited the function of the National Conservatoire, founded by Almeida Garrett, in 1836, and of teaching Film, introduced in the ...

for several years. His work and films influenced subsequent directors. This influence originated a cinematographic family commonly referred to as ''

The School of Reis The School of Reis is a film theory concept relative to the teachings of Portuguese director António Reis, to his work, conceived with his wife Margarida Cordeiro, and to the works of the directors influenced by theirs. It is a pun on the surname ...

''. His only daughter Ana Cordeiro Reis is a writer and contemporary composer.

Filmography

*1959 : ''Auto de Floripes'' (co-director) *1963 : ''Painéis do Porto'' *1964 : ''Do Céu ao Rio'' (co-director wit
César Guerra Leal
*1966 : ''Alto do Rabagão'' (co-director with César Guerra Leal) *1966 : ''Mudar de Vida'' (directed by Paulo Rocha, script by António Reis) *1974 : ''

Jaime Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...

'' *1976 : '' Trás-os-Montes'' (co-director with Margarida Cordeiro) *1985 : '' Ana'' (co-director with Margarida Cordeiro) *1989 : ''Rosa de Areia'' (co-director with Margarida Cordeiro)

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* ''O Cais do Olhar'' by

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, 1999

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António Reis
at the

Harvard Film Archive The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) is a film archive and cinema located in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of film, the HFA houses a c ...

Portuguese film directors 1927 births 1991 deaths People from Vila Nova de Gaia {{Portugal-film-director-stub

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