''Porto of My Childhood'' (Portuguese: Porto da Minha Infância) is a

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

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film directed by

Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wo ...

. Manoel de Oliveira narrates a documentary which features staged dramatic scenes of memories and stories told to him during his childhood in

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

Cast

* Jorge Trêpa - Manoel 1 *

Ricardo Trêpa Ricardo Oliveira de Sousa Trêpa (born 28 October 1972) is a Portuguese film actor. He has appeared in over 25 films and several TV shows since 1990. He is the grandson of Portuguese film director Manoel de Oliveira and has appeared in most o ...

- Manoel 2 *

Maria de Medeiros Maria Esteves de Medeiros Victorino de Almeida, DamSE (born 19 August 1965), known professionally as Maria de Medeiros (), is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions. Ear ...

- Miss Diabo *

- Himself / narrator / The Thief *

José Wallenstein José Wallenstein (born 18 October 1959) is a Portuguese actor. He appeared in more than ninety films since 1981. Selected filmography References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallenstein, Jose 1959 births Living people Male ac ...

- Joel *

Rogério Samora José Rogério dos Anjos Filipe da Conceição Samora (28 October 1958 – 15 December 2021) was a Portuguese film, television and stage actor. Biography He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1980. On 20 July 2021, Rogério Samora ...

- Chico *

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- Diogo * Jorge Loureiro - Casais Monteiro *

António Costa António Luís Santos da Costa GCIH (; born 17 July 1961) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician serving as the 119th and current prime minister of Portugal since 26 November 2015, presiding over the XXI (2015–2019), XXII (2019–2022) and ...

- Rodrigues de Freitas * José Maria Vaz da Silva - António Silva *

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- Augusto Nobre * Leonor Baldaque - Ela *

Leonor Silveira Leonor da Silveira Moreno e Lemos Gomes (born 28 October 1970) is a Portuguese film actress who made her film debut in '' The Cannibals'' for director Manoel de Oliveira in 1988. She appeared in most of Oliveira's subsequent films. She is the d ...

- Vamp * António Fonseca - Rufia * Nuno Sousa - Reis' assistant *

Agustina Bessa-Luís Agustina Bessa-Luís, GOSE (; 15 October 1922 – 3 June 2019) was a Portuguese writer. From 1986 and 1987, she was director of the daily '' O Primeiro de Janeiro'' (Porto). From 1990 to 1993, she was director of the D. Maria II National Theatre ( ...

- Dama texto *

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- A man (as Duarte de Almeida) * Estela Cunha - Mãe

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* 2001 films 2001 documentary films Documentary films about cities Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira 2000s Portuguese-language films Culture in Porto French documentary films Portuguese documentary films Autobiographical documentary films 2000s French films {{Portugal-film-stub