Eduardo Guedes

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Eduardo Luís Santos Correia Guedes (born April 21, 1941 in Lisbon , † August 29, 2000 ibid) was a Portuguese director.

Life

In the third year he broke off the study of chemical engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico , and in 1963 went to the London School of Film Technique (today's London Film School ). After graduation, he stayed in London, where he made documentaries with the Cinema Action collective. In 1986 he directed, together with his Belgian wife Ann, and was the producer and screenwriter for his first feature film. The equally socially critical and dreamy Rocinante is set against the background of the British miners' strike in 1984/1985 .

With his second film, Ausgespielt - Bearskin ( "Bearskin - An Urban Fairytale", 1989), with Tom Waits as the main character, and Isabel Ruth and Ian Dury in other roles, he reached the first international attention. His next film Pax was nominated for a Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival .

Already marked by his illness, he accepted an offer for a film for the Portuguese television channel SIC . On August 29, 2000, he died of cancer.

reception

In view of his age, he belonged to the generation of Novo Cinemas , but due to his biographical distance, his films show no noteworthy parallels to Portuguese film . In the beginning he was strongly motivated by social struggle, but he increasingly developed a poetic narrative language. This development, as well as the rapprochement with Portuguese cinema in his final years, ended his early death.

Filmography

  • 1987: Rocinante (also screenplay)
  • 1989: Played Out - Bearskin ( Bearskin - An Urban Fairytale , also screenplay)
  • 1994: Pax
  • 2000: Facas e Anjos (TV movie)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?sucheNach=titel&wert=5831
  2. ↑ http://cinema.sapo.pt/pessoa/eduardo-guedes/biografia  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / cinema.sapo.pt  
  3. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989–2003 , 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 282f
  4. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989–2003 , 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 282f
personal data
SURNAME Guedes, Eduardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Santos Correia Guedes, Eduardo Luís (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese director
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 2000
Place of death Lisbon