Direction: Fernando Lopes

Direction Fernando Lopes

Cast Belarmino Fragoso

Synopsis Former boxing champion Belarmino is interviewed about his private life, his career or lack of, and his present routines. Belarmino, a man of no culture, dodges the most probing questions like a smart lawyer, sometimes attacking other people, and always...

Direction Manuel Costa e Silva · António da Cunha Telles · Acácio de Almeida · António de Macedo

Synopsis Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.

Direction Fernando Lopes

Cast Laura Soveral · Joao Guedes · Zita Duarte · Ruy Furtado

Synopsis This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own....

Direction Fernando Lopes

Cast Rogério Samora · Alexandra Lencastre · Rui Morisson · Isabel Ruth

Synopsis In fascist Portugal of the late sixties a rich landowner leads an idle life of hunting (animals and women), drinking and enjoying himself. He owns everything and everybody around him not only the objects, the horses, the dogs, the land...

Direction Fernando Lopes

Cast Rogério Samora · Teresa Madruga · Pedro Efe · Alexandre de Sousa

Synopsis A 47 year old man who immigrated illegally to France, returns to his village and faces the changes that took place there, even the bride he had left is involved with another man. At that moment, and while the village...

Direction Fernando Lopes

Cast Rui Morisson · João Reis · Maria João Pinho · Maria João Luís

Direction Fernando Lopes

Synopsis Documentary film about the importance of electrical wires in spreading electricity and words through the valleys and mountains, with emphasis on the industrial work. The production and the economic and social relevance of electric cables, may be watched as abstract...

Direction Fernando Lopes

Cast Zita Duarte · Vanda França · Adelaide João · Fernando Barradas

Synopsis A film crew goes to Várzea dos Amarelos visit the mother of the director, fixing some of the moments of the local life and listens to the old lady.

Direction Fernando Lopes

Cast Nuno Duarte · João Perry · Lia Gama · Maria do Céu Guerra

Synopsis Living in expeditions, a gang of friendly Malandro Lisboetas is one day contacted by mysterious Italian (from the Mafia, it is assumed) to steal part of the Lalique Collection, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Museum.

Direction Fernando Lopes

Cast Claude Brasseur · Andrea Ferréol · Ana Padrão · Antonio Valero

Synopsis Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.

Direction Fernando Lopes

Synopsis Fernando Lopes first movie, a 15 minute documentary short about the city of Evora. According to Jorge Leitão Ramos, in Dictionary of Portuguese Cinema, this short is the beginning of Portuguese Cinema Novo.