Manoel de Oliveira
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Manoel de Oliveira was born in Porto, Portugal on December 11, 1908, to Francisco José de Oliveira and Cândida Ferreira Pinto. His family were wealthy industrialists. Oliveira attended school in Galicia, Spain and his goal as a teenager was to become an actor. He enrolled in Italian film-maker Rino Lupo's acting school at age 20, but later changed his mind when he saw Walther Ruttmann's documentary Berlin: Symphony of a City. This prompted him to direct his first film, also a documentary, titledDouro, Faina Fluvial (1931). He also acted in the second Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa (…
Also known as
Manoel Candido Pinto de Oliveira · Manuel de Oliveira · Мануэль де Оливейра · Мануэл Ди Оливейра
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Ciné regards
1978 · TV
Famalicão
1941 · Movie
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Movie
Fátima Milagrosa
1928 · Movie
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011 · TV
Doomed Love
1978 · TV
Hitler in Hollywood
2011 · Movie
Rencontre Unique
2007 · Movie
The Uncertainty Principle
2002 · Movie
Party
1996 · Movie
I’m Going Home
2001 · Movie
Lisbon Story
1994 · Movie