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António da Cunha Telles is a Director, Story, Associate Producer and Editor Portugais born on 26 february 1935 at Funchal (Portugal)

António da Cunha Telles

António da Cunha Telles
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Nationality Portugal
Birth 26 february 1935 at Funchal (Portugal)
Death 23 november 2022 (at 87 years)

António da Cunha Telles (born February 26, 1935) is a Portuguese film director and producer. He was born in Funchal.

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.

Back to Portugal, he ran a newspaper called Imagens de Portugal (Images of Portugal), and assumed leading functions at the Cinema Services of State Entities.

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.

During the 1970s, Telles directed three films: Meus Amigos (1974) and Continuar a Viver (1976) signed by himself, As Armas e o Povo (1975) together with other directors. In the end of the decade, Cunha Telles is found high placed as the leader of the Portuguese Cinema Institute and the Tobis Portuguesa.

In 1983, returns to production, since the Animatógrafo firm was divided in one sector of distribution (still in activity, conducted by Renée Gagnon - the current Marfilmes) and one sector of production, headed by himself (together with his daughter Pandora da Cunha Telles - the current Filmes de Fundo), which is dedicated to its own productions as well as assuring executive productions of foreign films partially shot in Portugal, counting since that date with a large number of productions, with films directed by names like José Fonseca e Costa, Eduardo Geada, Joaquim Leitão, Edgar Pêra, António de Macedo, António-Pedro Vasconcelos and among several telefilms and a countless number of executive productions.

The most recent films directed by Cunha Telles are Vidas (1984), Pandora (1996) and, more recently, Kiss Me (2004), the first and only cinematic experience of the top model Marisa Cruz.

Best films

D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
(Executive Producer)
Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)
(Producer)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of António da Cunha Telles (55 films)

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Director

Scriptwriter

The Circle
The Circle (1970)

Directed by António da Cunha Telles
Genres Drama
Actors Maria Cabral, Ruy de Carvalho
Roles Story
Rating69% 3.457443.457443.457443.457443.45744

Producer

Sweet Valentine, 1h25
Directed by Emma Luchini
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Vincent Elbaz, Vanessa David, Louise Bourgoin, Gilles Cohen, Adrien Saint-Joré, Mehdi Dehbi
Roles Producer
Rating49% 2.4982552.4982552.4982552.4982552.498255
Un petit truand, grand fumeur et très soigné, a comme partenaire une amie candide, discrète, mais omniprésente. Un duo forcé partant pour un road-movie couvrant plusieurs pays, avec enlèvements, fréquentation de fripouilles d'origines diverses, drogue ou trafic d'armes. Elle s'encanaille, mais reste maligne. Il la méprise, la maltraite, mais elle lui est indispensable. Elle s'accroche, lui sauve la vie quand il va régler ses problèmes familiaux, et lui rend visite lorsqu'il finit en prison.
The Dead Queen, 1h45
Directed by Pierre Boutron
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Michel Aumont, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Gaëlle Bona, Thomas Jouannet, Aladin Reibel, Claude Rich
Roles Executive Producer
Rating66% 3.320123.320123.320123.320123.32012
Arrivant à la fin de sa vie, le puissant roi Ferrante souhaite marier son fils Don Pedro, héritier du trône du Portugal, à l'infante de Navarre. Il voit cependant sa volonté contrariée par le fait que son fils a dernièrement épousé en secret une jeune roturière : Inès de Castro.
The Easy Way, 1h40
Directed by Jean-Paul Rouve
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Alice Taglioni, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve, Maxime Leroux, Patrick Bosso, Anne Marivin
Roles Executive Producer
Rating58% 2.909472.909472.909472.909472.90947
In 1977 in Nice, Albert Spaggiari is arrested by the police and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he manages to escape by jumping out of the window and riding off by motorcycle with an accomplice. He then exiles to South America where he meets new faces including a mysterious journalist who wants to interview him about the heist and his whereabouts.
Fragile(s)
Fragile(s) (2007)

Directed by Martin Valente
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors François Berléand, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jacques Gamblin, Marie Gillain, David Geselson
Roles Executive Producer
Rating62% 3.1228053.1228053.1228053.1228053.122805
6 personnages se croisent, entre Paris et Lisbonne, en plein doute sur le sens à redonner à leur vie.
Sleepwalking Land
Genres Drama
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.332143.332143.332143.332143.33214
In Mozambique, the civil war causes devastation among the population. Amongst this chaos, young Muidinga dreams of finding his family. One day, he finds a diary on a lifeless body; it speaks of a woman searching for her son. Convinced that he’s the missing son, Muidinga decides to find her. On his journey he’s accompanied by an old man, Tuahir, always ready to tell a tale. Their journey is a battle, and turns them into somnambulists in a country devastated by war.
Animal
Animal (2005)
, 1h43
Directed by Roselyne Bosch
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films set in the future
Actors Andreas Wilson, Ed Stoppard, Mark Heap, John Standing, Natalie Press, Juliet Rylance
Roles Co-Producer
Rating48% 2.4189252.4189252.4189252.4189252.418925
Dans un futur proche, un jeune généticien idéaliste et ambitieux découvre les gènes de l'agressivité. Il tente de modifier un tueur en série, avant d'être lui-même tenté d'augmenter sa part "animale", à ses risques et périls. Les rôles s'inversent dans ce double "Jekyll et Hyde" revisité. Une jeune femme, éthologue et spécialiste des loups, tentera de sauver le généticien de lui-même. Un conte philosophique sur la part sauvage en nous.
Anatomy of Hell, 1h17
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama, Pornographic
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Catherine Breillat
Roles Executive Producer
Rating44% 2.2059852.2059852.2059852.2059852.205985
Teetering on the edge of overwhelming ennui, a lonely and dejected woman pays a gay man to join her for a daring, four-day exploration of sexuality in which both reject all convention and smash all boundaries while locked away from society in an isolated estate. Only when the man and woman confront the most unspeakable aspects of their sexuality will they have a pure understanding of how the sexes view one another.
Volpone
Volpone (2004)

Directed by Frédéric Auburtin
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Prévost, Gérard Jugnot, Robert Hirsch, Jean-François Stévenin, Inés Sastre
Roles Executive Producer
Rating71% 3.5713953.5713953.5713953.5713953.571395
En Italie au 15eme siècle, l'aventurier Volpone (Depardieu) engage un serviteur escroc : MOSCA (Daniel Prevost). Ils s'installent à Naples pour une nouvelle arnaque. Volpone revient dans sa ville natale pour faire croire aux bourgeois que Volpone redevient très riche et prêt à mourir à paix, avec l'aide d'un notaire (Jugnot) il faut trouver à tout pris un héritier..
The Pact of Silence
Directed by Graham Guit
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Élodie Bouchez, Carmen Maura, Isaac Sharry, Tsilla Chelton, Teresa Madruga
Roles Executive Producer
Rating57% 2.8537952.8537952.8537952.8537952.853795
Dans un dispensaire brésilien, Joachim, un père médecin, découvre Soeur Sarah, une jeune carmélite, dans un état de souffrance extrême. Il l'examine mais ne trouve rien. Intrigué, il décide de suivre ce cas jusqu'en France où elle est rapatriée en secret. La menace rôde, le père Joachim ignore que la vérité va bouleverser à jamais sa vie.
Sex Is Comedy, 1h34
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about films
Actors Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida
Roles Associate Producer
Rating56% 2.8035252.8035252.8035252.8035252.803525
La réalisatrice Jeanne rencontre des difficultés sévères pendant le tournage de son nouveau film. Bien qu'il fasse froid, il faut tourner une scène de vacances d'été à la mer.