Antonio Lopes Ribeiro
António Lopes Ribeiro (born April 16, 1908 in Lisbon ; † April 14, 1995 there ) was a Portuguese film director and producer .
biography
After graduating from high school, the Liceu Pedro Nunes in Lisbon, he began studying at the Instituto Superior Técnico , the faculty of engineering at the Technical University of Lisbon . Following his passion for films since childhood, he dropped out of studies and in 1926 became one of the country's first film critics . First he wrote for the magazine Semper Fixe , then for the afternoon newspaper Diário de Lisboa (published 1921–1990), in which he ran a weekly cinematic column under the pseudonym Retardador (dt. "The Retarder") for several years . In 1930 he founded the weekly film newspaper Kino , which he directed for a year. In the following decades he wrote repeatedly theater, circus and film reviews for various magazines and newspapers, among others. a. in A Bola .
After having been a hobby filmmaker since his youth, he shot his first film under professional conditions in 1928. In 1929 he toured the most important film studios in Europe in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Vienna, Milan, Nice and Barcelona. In the same year he shot the Portuguese scenes for Erich Schönfelder's film Fräulein Lausbub . In 1933 he made his first feature film ( Gado Bravo , German "Wildes Vieh"). In the following decades he made more than 50 films, including many reports, documentaries and feature films for the repressive Estado Novo regime of Salazar (1889–1970), but also some of the successful Lisbon comedies of the time.
António Lopes Ribeiro was also active on the radio. From the founding of the Emissora Nacional from 1933 to 1936, he worked there, where he headed the record archive from 1935. He was also active as a theater director and led the theater company Os Comediantes de Lisboa from 1944 to 1951. Ribeiro was also a film producer, especially with his production company, Produções António Lopes Ribeiro, founded in 1941 . From 1938 to 1943 and from 1957 to 1974 he was chairman of the Portuguese Filmmakers' Union ( Sindicato dos Profissionais de Cinema ). Portuguese television ( RTP ), launched in 1956, broadcast its Museu do Cinema program from 1957 to 1974 .
António Lopes Ribeiro is the older brother of Francisco Carlos Lopes Ribeiro (1911-1984), who was a well-known actor and theater director in Portugal as Ribeirinho .
reception
He was considered a multi-talented director and passionate cineast who had been involved with film from an early age. At the same time he was also a supporter of Salazar, for whose regime he still made films after Salazar's resignation. His work includes an abundance of documentaries, comedies, literary adaptations and dramas, but also a number of propaganda films for the Inauguração do Estádio Nacional ("Inauguration of the National Stadium" 1944) or Portugal de Luto na Morte de Salazar ("Portugal mourns death Salazars "1970) are vivid examples. His strongly anti-communist film A Revolução de Maio , made under the influence of the Spanish Civil War and with significant involvement of the State Propaganda Secretariat (SPN), was the Estado Novo's first propaganda film in 1937. Accordingly, Ribeiro, like José Leitão de Barros , was later seen as an uncritical and opportunistic "director of the regime", who did not deny talent and a deep passion for the cinema.
Filmography
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literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 , Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-21-0446-2
- A.Murtinheira & I. Metzeltin History of Portuguese Cinema , Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9
Web links
- António Lopes Ribeiro in the Internet Movie Database (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 334ff
- ↑ http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/clpic/tematicos/cinema/realizadores/ribeiro_antoniolopes.html
- ↑ http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/953_Vigo/09_PenaEN.html
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A.Murtinheira & I. Metzeltin History of Portuguese Cinema 1st Edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 141
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 , Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 336
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ribeiro, António Lopes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lopes Ribeiro, António |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese film director and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1995 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |