Luís Miguel Cintra
An iconic actor and stage director in Portugal, Luís Miguel Cintra was born in Madrid, in 1949. His connection to theater began in 1968, at the Faculty of Letters Theater Group, when he was studying Romance Philology at the University of Lisbon. From 1970 to 1972, he attended the Acting Technical Course, in the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, thanks to a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. When he returned to Portugal, he founded, along with Jorge Silva Melo, the Teatro da Cornucópia Company, in 1973, where he directed plays by some of the great names in theater, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Strindberg, and many others, almost always participating as an actor in the plays he directed. At the same time, until the 80s, he was a theater critic for O Tempo e o Modo magazine and he managed the Seara Nova Theater Collection, from Estampa publishing house, and the Theater Collection, from Ulmeiro publishing house. As a reader, Luís Miguel Cintra recorded complete readings of Viagens na Minha Terra, by Almeida Garrett and Amor de Perdição, by Camilo Castelo Branco, as well as poems by Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Camões, Antero de Quental and Ruy Belo. In 1987, Cintra made his debut as an opera stage director, with L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, by Ravel and Dido and Aeneas, by Purcell, at the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos. In the following years, he directed operas by Mozart, Haydn, Cherubini, among others. He worked with the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos Choir and the Gulbenkian Choir, as a reader, in recitals by authors such as Schubert, Liszt, Sati and Poulenc. In 1984, he entered the Venice Biennial Theater Festival with his group and in 1988 he directed the show La Mort du Prince et Autres Fragments, by Fernando Pessoa, for the Avignon Festival. Later, he kept on presenting plays in Italy, France, Spain and. Belgium In addition to the theater, Luís Miguel Cintra began his career in cinema early, making his debut in a short film by João César Monteiro. From that point until now, he worked in over 70 films, with directors like the aforementioned João César Monteiro, Paulo Rocha, Manoel de Oliveira, Joaquim Pinto, João Botelho, Teresa Villaverde, Pedro Costa and the American John Malkovich. His many awards include two Bordalo da Casa da Imprensa Awards for Best Acting in Film (1995) and Best Acting in Theater (1997), two Globos de Ouro for Theater Personality of the Year (1999) and Best Theater Actor (2003), the Coimbra University Award and the Pessoa Prize, both in 2005. The LEFFEST will pay tribute to Luís Miguel Cintra’s work as an actor, through a selection of films he starred in; and as a stage director, showing recordings of some of the plays, followed by discussions with the audience and several actors he worked with.
April Captains
as Brigadeiro PaisStory of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued...
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Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
as uncreditedOn a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an...
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The Dancer Upstairs
as CalderónA police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary...
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The Strange Case of Angelica
as EngenheiroA photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased...
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The world that was (and that is)
as NarratorThe flash of socialism that once lit Spain.
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Abraham's Valley
as Carlos de PaivaEma is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her...
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A Talking Picture
as HimselfA meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for...
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No, or the Vain Glory of Command
as Ens. Cabrita, Viriato, Don João de PortugalEpisodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish...
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My Case
as L'IntrusManoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be...
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Gebo and the Shadow
as ChamicoDespite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his...
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The Divine Comedy
as ProphetIn a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria,...
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The Cannibals
as Viscount d'AveledaThis odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera....
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The Last Dive
as Hyperion Extracts Reader (voice)Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by...
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Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
as Diretor Museu Porto SantoA true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer...
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Anxiety
as SonAn anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In...
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The Letter
as M. da SilvaA well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her....
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Island of Loves
as Wenceslau de MoraesThis film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of...
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As Bodas de Deus
as God's MessengerAfter receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend...
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The Convent
as BaltarThe journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a...
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Casa de Lava
as Actor convidadoThe film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in...
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Blood
as The UncleNino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father....
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Word and Utopia
as Padre António Vieira (middle age)The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and...
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Recollections of the Yellow House
as LívioLisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family...
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The Uncertainty Principle
as Daniel RoperHaving lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
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Poor George
as Highschool Teacher LuisOne night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his...
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The Satin Slipper
as Don RodrigueDuring the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don...
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Second Hand
as Henrique Castro LimaJorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's...
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The Mountains of the Moon
as JoãoThis visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki...
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Silvestre
as Pilgrim / Knight / D. RaimundoA bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of...
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The Jester
as Count of TravaSet four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese...
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War
as Cabo MiraThe recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel,...
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Rage
as CamachoAlentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and...
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Magic Mirror
as Filipe QuintaLuciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy...
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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
as Vitalino1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which...
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Two Brothers, My Sister
as Friend at the ApartmentThis dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman...
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Demain?
as Ruben DarioThe short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a...
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The Days When I Don’t Exist
as L'oncleA story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is...
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From Now On
as AntónioDora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her...
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Fragments of an Alms-Film
as Narrator (voice)Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has...
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The Sword and the Rose
as Rosa 2Manuel bids farewell to his routine and boards a 15th century vessel under pirate law. Treason...
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Tall Stories
as Dr. Fernando12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at...
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Ninguém Duas Vezes
as CarlosDirector Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about...
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Day of Despair
as Freitas FortunaPortrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
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Pathos Ethos Logos
as uncreditedThe earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence,...
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Illusion
as uncreditedLuis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre...
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Blind Man's Bluff
as Blind ManA blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the...
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Biette
as SelfDocumentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.
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Here on Earth
as MiguelMiguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his...
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Correspondences
as uncreditedJorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA....
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The Fifth Empire
as Simão, Sapateiro SantoManoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power...
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The Heart's Root
as CatãoSet in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the...
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Where the Sun Beats
as Artur (voice)Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study...
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Around Rocha’s Table
as Self'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find,...
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We Are on Air
as VozThirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s...
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Snow White
as O CaçadorMonteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired...
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Transatlantique
as uncreditedIn this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator...
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Rending
as professorA philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
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The Old Man of Belem
as Luís de CamõesDon Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal...
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Villa Mauresque
as TiagoVincent, a young Swiss, is upset by his meeting with the city of Lisbon. He will meet two...
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He Who Waits for Dead Man Shoes Dies Barefoot
as LívioThe tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given...
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A Pousada das Chagas
as uncreditedA representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.
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The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John
as uncreditedTHE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN read by Luis Miguel Cintra, one of the most prominent Portuguese...
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Zéfiro
as NarratorZephyrus is a film-voyage, a fresco about Southern Portugal. A movie dealing metaphorically with...
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O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
as uncreditedO Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake...
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Lisboa Cultural
as uncreditedSeventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects,...
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E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?
as Valentin 1The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge...
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Gestures and Fragments
as Armando (voice)"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures &...
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O Filme Feliz :)
as uncreditedGonçalo and his friends set off on a mission to his deceased grandfather’s house, in the north...
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Pathos
as uncreditedOnce upon a time, the last days of 2028. This world’s disarray, no more no less than ever....
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Love Lights
as uncreditedThe evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it,...
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Romance de Vila do Conde
as NarratorManoel de Oliveira's homage to Vila do Conde, with a poem by José Régio. It was shot in 1965,...
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A Present Light
as uncreditedOn a rainy night, a sad man leaves his home to deliver a letter to someone who recently left...
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Truth or Dare?
as SelfTheatre is life, as movement is life. In "Truth or Dare?", Sofia Marques sets off in search of...
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