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António da Cunha Telles
Producer, Director, Editor, Actor, Writer, Additional Credits
Born February 26, 1935Died November 23, 2022 (87 years)
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.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 2020 | Simon Calls · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | |
| 2012 | Brazil Red (TV Series) · as Co-Producer |
| 2011 | |
| 2010 | |
| 2010 | |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | The Dead Queen · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | The Easy Way · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | Fragile(s) · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | Un amour de fantôme · as Associate Producer |
| 2007 | Theresa: The Body of Christ · as Associate Producer |
| 2005 | |
| 2005 | Un jeu dangereux · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Animal · as Co-Producer |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Julie, Chevalier de Maupin (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Mariage mixte · as Associate Producer |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Le pays des enfants perdus · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Anatomy of Hell · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Volpone · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | The masked avenger: Lagardère (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Os Imortais · as Co-Producer |
| 2003 | Frank Riva (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Une villa pour deux · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Les Thibault (TV Series) · as Associate Producer |
| 2003 | Demain nous appartient · as Associate Producer |
| 2003 | Aurélien · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | The Pact of Silence · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Ruy Blas · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Les frangines · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Sex Is Comedy · as Associate Producer |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | Alta Fidelidade · as Associate Producer |
| 2000 | Hijos del viento: Entre la luz y las tinieblas · as Co-Producer |
| 2000 | Lourdes · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 | Jaime · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | |
| 1998 | Black Out · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Dribbling Fate · as Co-Producer |
| 1997 | To the Limit · as Co-Producer |
| 1997 | Fatima · as Executive Producer |
| 1997 | |
| 1997 | The Garden of Redemption · as Executive Producer |
| 1997 | Vertiges (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Lejos de África · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | |
| 1996 | Attends-moi · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Clubbed to Death (Lola) · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Un asunto privado · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Les Bidochon · as Co-Producer |
| 1996 | La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado · as Co-Producer |
| 1995 | The Jew · as Associate Producer |
| 1995 | Foreign Land · as Co-Producer |
| 1995 | Palace · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | Fiesta · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | Antarctica · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | |
| 1995 | Celestial Clockwork · as Executive Producer |
| 1994 | Revenge of the Musketeers · as Executive Producer |
| 1994 | Association de bienfaiteurs (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1994 | Le cascadeur (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1993 | |
| 1993 | |
| 1992 | Belle Epoque · as Co-Producer |
| 1992 | Dark at Noon · as Executive Producer |
| 1992 | Le retour des Charlots · as Executive Producer |
| 1992 | La gamine · as Executive Producer |
| 1991 | |
| 1991 | Les fleurs du mal · as Executive Producer |
| 1990 | 1871 · as Co-Producer |
| 1989 | Love Comedy · as Executive Producer |
| 1989 | Street of No Return · as Executive Producer |
| 1988 | |
| 1988 | The Secret Cases of Inspector Lavardin (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1988 | Contrainte par corps · as Executive Producer |
| 1988 | La valise en carton (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | Ballad of dog beach · as Executive Producer |
| 1987 | Cross · as Executive Producer |
| 1984 | |
| 1984 | To Catch a King · as Executive Producer |
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| 1964 | |
| 1964 | O Crime de Aldeia Velha · as Executive Producer |
| 1964 | |
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