
Person
António da Cunha Telles
Production
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- Feb 26, 1935
- Died
- Nov 23, 2022
- From
- Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
António Cohen da Cunha Telles was born on February 26, 1935 in Funchal, Madeira. He studied Medicine in the University of Lisbon. He went to Paris around 1956, studying film-making at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques (IDHEC), graduating in 1961. His directing debut was made with the documentary "Os Transportes" (1962), and starts activity as a producer, becoming one of the essential names of the Portuguese New Cinema (Novo Cinema) movement. He produces "Os Verdes Anos" (1963) by Paulo Rocha and "Belarmino" (1964) by Fernando Lopes. In 1970, Cunha Telles directed his first feature-film, "O Cerco". Meanwhile, he established a distribution company (Animatógrafo) which becomes responsible for a revolution in the kind of cinema seen in Portugal in the first half of the 1970s. Eisenstein, Tanner, Jorge Sanjines, Littín, Glauber Rocha, Vigo, Gilles Carle, Karmitz, among others, became more familiar to the Portuguese audience through that distributor.
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Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista

Chamo-me António da Cunha Telles

An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Born with a Thunderstorm

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
Cinéma Portugais – Un Mode d'Emploi

História do Cinema Português

The Soft Skin

Bocage, the Triumph of Love

Antártida
Amor Cego

Meus Amigos

Simon Calls

Rosa Negra

Feu Adrien Muset
Le commissaire épate le FBI

The Eagle and the Horse

Passagem por Lisboa