Biography
Manoel de Oliveira
Directing
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…
Career works
45
Movies
40
Series
5
Career average
6.8/10
Birth date
12/11/1908
Place of birth
Porto, Portugal
Date of death
04/02/2015
Filmography highlights
Movies
The Life of Mirrors
2025
Jornal Português (1938-1951)
2015
The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal
2015 · 6.2
Visit, or Memories and Confessions
2015 · 7.5
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014 · 4.0
Biette
2013
101
2012 · 9.0
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011 · 7.6
Hitler in Hollywood
2011 · 6.2
Guest
2011 · 6.0
Manoel de Oliveira, O Caso Dele
2007
The 15th Stone
2007 · 6.5
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
2007 · 5.6
O Improvável Não é Impossível
2006 · 6.0
No Tempo do Cinema
2006
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