- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- April 16, 1908
- Place of Birth
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Died
- April 14, 1995
António Lopes Ribeiro
Director, journalist, and producer, António Lopes Ribeiro (1908-1995) was a central name in the history of Portuguese cinema in the first half of the 20th century. Movie critic since the late 1920s, he supported the European cinematographic avant-gardes and the aesthetical and technical renewal of Portuguese cinema. He directed his first film, Bailando ao sol, in 1928 and took part in the shooting of J. Leitão de Barros film’s Nazaré, praia de pescadores (1929), Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica and Maria do Mar (1930). Shortly before that, he undertook a long journey to the great movie studios of Paris, Berlin and Moscow, where he became up to speed with the most recent techniques and tendencies, and where he also met Clair, Renoir, Lang, Pabst, Eisenstein and Vertov. His first sound film was Gado Bravo (1934), made with several Jewish film actors and technicians that had just escaped from Hitl…
Filmography
movieThe Tyrant Father
2022 · Original Film Writer
movieLusitanian Illusion
2010 · Self (archive footage)
O Carro da Estrela
movieO Carro da Estrela
1989
tvChuva na Areia
1985 · Padre Abel Correia
movieO Primo Basílio
1959 · Director, Screenplay
Faina do Rio e do Mar
movieFaina do Rio e do Mar
1959 · Director
The Presidential Journey to Brazil
movieThe Presidential Journey to Brazil
1957 · Director
movie30 years with Salazar
1957 · Director
movieAs Rodas de Lisboa
1951 · Director
movieFrei Luís de Sousa
1950 · Director, Screenplay, Editor, Production Design
movieLisboa de Hoje e de Amanhã
1948 · Narrator, Director, Writer
O Cortejo Histórico de Lisboa
movieO Cortejo Histórico de Lisboa
1947 · Director
movieCamões
1946 · Writer, Producer
Guinea-Bissau, Cradle of the Empire
movieGuinea-Bissau, Cradle of the Empire
1946 · Director
movieThe Girl Next Door
1945 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe People We Civilized
1944 · Director
movieDoomed Love
1943 · Director, Production Design
movieAniki-Bóbó
1942 · Dialogue, Producer
movieThe Courtyard of the Ballads
1942 · Writer, Dialogue, Producer
movieThe Tyrannical Father
1941 · Writer, Director, Producer, Production Design
movieThe Spell of the Empire
1940 · Writer, Editor, Production Design, Director
movieA Revolução de Maio
1937 · Director, Writer
movieGado Bravo
1934 · Director
movieMaria of the Sea
1930 · Assistant Director, Screenplay
movieLisbon, Anecdotal Chronicle
1930 · Assistant Director, Editor
movieNazaré, Praia de Pescadores e Zona de Turismo
1929 · Assistant Director