Director

António da Cunha Telles

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 0All crew credits: 110

TMDB ID: 18806

IMDb ID: nm0196088

Known for: Production

Born: February 26, 1935

Died: November 23, 2022

Age: 87

Place of birth: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1963 - 2026

Years active: 64

Average TMDB rating: 5.87

Wikidata: Q611544

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Director (6)Producer (51)Executive Producer (36)Co-Producer (8)Associate Producer (4)Delegated Producer (2)Editor (1)Production Executive (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

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.