Jorge Brum do Canto
Jorge Brum do Canto (born February 10, 1910 in Lisbon , † February 7, 1994 there ) was a Portuguese film director .
Life
With family ties to the Flemish and English nobility , he was born into a materially wealthy family. He was interested in the cinema early on. He wrote his first film review at the age of nine, and he took on his first film role at 15, in Rino Lupo's film O Desconhecido . At 17 he became a film critic for the newspaper O Século , where he ran the O Século Cinegráfico film site until 1929 . He also wrote for other film magazines of the time ( Cinéfilo , Kino and Imagem ). His law studies, which he has now started he broke off and devoted himself professionally to film.
Fascinated by the French avant-garde , especially by Marcel L'Herbier , he directed the short film A Dança dos Paroxismos ("The Dance of Seizures") for the first time in 1929 . Some documentaries followed. He was assistant director for José Leitão de Barros ' As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1935) and for Chianca de Garcias O Trevo de Quatro Folhas (1936) before making his first feature-length film in 1938 with A Canção da Terra ("The Song of Homeland") turned. With approval from the audience and critics alike, the film impressed with its successful editing and its modernist spirit, despite the particularly down-to-earth subject matter. A number of other feature films followed, most of which are considered to be average in cinematic terms, but stand out due to their innovative choice of topics and, in some cases, greater audiences. For example, João Ratão from 1940, who took on the Portuguese participation in World War I , in keeping with Portuguese neutrality in the Second World War, which had just broken out . Ladrão too , precisa-se! ("Dieb sucht", 1946) stood out from the comedies of the time through its editing and through its attempt to produce a Portuguese film based on the Hollywood Music Hall films .
After Chaimite , who in 1953 showed the defeat of King Gungunhana against the Portuguese troops at the end of the 19th century in what was then the Portuguese colony of Mozambique , do Canto withdrew from the film business until 1959 in order to manage his property on the island of Porto Santo and his own Passionate about deep sea fishing and sport fishing . In the 1960s he returned to directing, but did not receive any more attention for his films. In the 1970s, he appeared as an actor in plays broadcast by the state television network RTP . O Crime de Simão Bolandas ("The Crime of Simão Bolanda") was one of his last directorial work in 1984, which, however, received little attention.
Filmography
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literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos "Dicionário do cinema portugués 1962 - 1988" Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989 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
- Jorge Brum do Canto in the Internet Movie Database (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/clpic/tematicos/cinema/realizadores/canto_jorgebrumdo.html
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: "Dicionário do cinema portugués 1962 - 1988" Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, page 76f
- ↑ http://cinema.sapo.pt/pessoa/jorge-brum-do-canto/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.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Canto, Jorge Brum do |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1994 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |