Paulo Soares da Rocha (22 December 1935 – 29 December 2012) was a Portuguese film director. Among his best-known films are ''

A Ilha dos Amores ''A Ilha dos Amores'' ( ja, 恋の浮島, translit=Koi no ukishima) is a 1982 Portuguese-Japanese drama film directed by Paulo Rocha. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Luís Miguel Cintra - Wenceslau de Moraes * Clara ...

'' and '' O Rio do Ouro''. ''A Ilha dos Amores'' was entered into the

1982 Cannes Film Festival The 35th Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 26 May 1982. The Palme d'Or was jointly awarded to '' Missing'' by Costa Gavras and ''Yol'' by Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney. The festival opened with the 1916 film ''Intolerance'', directed b ...

, '' O Desejado'' was entered into the main competition at the 44th edition of the

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 he ...

,Aa. Vv. ''

Variety Film Reviews ''Variety Film Reviews'' is the 24-volume hardcover reprint of feature film reviews by the weekly entertainment tabloid-size magazine '' Variety'' from 1907 to 1996. Film reviews continued to be published in the weekly magazine after the reprints w ...

'', Volume 20. Garland Pub., 1988. and ''O Rio do Ouro'' was screened in the

Un Certain Regard (, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films w ...

section at the 1998 Festival.

Filmography as director

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Os Verdes Anos ''Os Verdes Anos'' is a 1963 Portuguese drama film directed by Paulo Rocha. Cast * Isabel Ruth * Rui Gomes * Ruy Furtado Ruy may refer to: Arts and Entertainment *Ruy, the Little Cid, Spanish animated television series *Ruy Blas, a characte ...

'' (1963) *''Mudar de Vida'' (1966) *''Sever do Vouga... Uma Experiência'' (1971) *''A Pousada das Chagas'' (1972) *''

'' (1982) *'' O Desejado'' (1988) *''"Cinéma, de Notre Temps": Oliveira - L'Architecte'' (1993) *''Portugaru San - O Sr. Portugal em Tokushima'' (1993) *''Camões - Tanta Guerra, Tanto Engano'' (1998) *'' O Rio do Ouro'' (1998) *''A Raiz do Coração'' (2000) *''As Sereias'' (2001) *''Vanitas'' (2004) *''Se Eu Fosse Ladrão, Roubava'' (2011)

References

Bibliographic references

* ''O Cais do Olhar'' by

José de Matos-Cruz José de Matos-Cruz (born 9 February 1947) is a Portuguese writer, journalist, editor, high-school teacher, investigator, encyclopedist. From 1980 to 2010, he worked at the ''Cinemateca Portuguesa'' (Portuguese Film Archive) in Lisbon. He is a pr ...

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, 1999

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