Paulo Rocha
Paulo Rocha was born on December 22, 1935 in Porto, Portugal. He was a director and producer, known for A Ilha dos Amores (1982), O Rio do Ouro (1998) and A Raiz do Coração(2000). He died on December 29, 2012 in Porto. Abandoned Lisbon Law School to dedicate himself to the movies, and founded Cine-Clube de Lisboa (CCC) with Nuno de Bragança, João Bénard da Costa, Pedro Tamen and Alberto Vaz da Silva. In 1962, concluded his studies at IDHEC, Paris, France, but he says he learned more watching time and again Jean Renoir and 'Kenzo Mizoguchi' films than in academic film studies
Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
as uncreditedAmbulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that...
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Francisca
as DoctorThe life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love...
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Island of Loves
as Camilo PessanhaThis film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of...
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The Sound of the Shaking Earth
as Hostel DoormanFreely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who...
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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
as uncredited1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which...
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On the Edge of the Horizon
as uncreditedSpino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30...
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The Satin Slipper
as Premier PrêteDuring the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don...
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Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
as uncreditedThe city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The...
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A Ilha de Moraes
as SelfThis film, made as a "twin" of A ilha dos amores, was planned as a poetic documentary on the...
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Three Less Me
as The MelomaniacA young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom...
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Around Rocha’s Table
as Self (archive footage)'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find,...
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