Manoel de Oliveira

About

Manoel de Oliveira (11 December 1908 - 2 April 2015) was born in Porto, Portugal 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 (1933). His first feature film came much later, in 1942. Aniki-Bóbó, a portrait of Oporto's street children, was a commercial failure when it opened, and its merit only came to be recognised over time. This drawback forced Oliveira to abandon other film projects he was involved in, and...

Known for

To Each His Own CinemaMovie • 2007I’m Going HomeMovie • 2001The Strange Case of AngelicaMovie • 2010A Talking PictureMovie • 2003Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired GirlMovie • 2009Abraham's ValleyMovie • 1993No, or the Vain Glory of CommandMovie • 1990Belle ToujoursMovie • 2006FranciscaMovie • 1981The ConventMovie • 1995The Green YearsMovie • 1963A Song of LisbonMovie • 1933Aniki-BóbóMovie • 1942Working on the Douro RiverMovie • 1931