José Leitão de Barros

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José Júlio Marques Leitão de Barros (born October 22, 1896 in Lisbon , † June 29, 1967 ibid) was a Portuguese director .

Leitão de Barros

Life

Leitão de Barros studied at the University of Lisbon and became a teacher of drawing and mathematics . Out of curiosity about the relatively new art form, he came into contact with film and made one of the first Portuguese feature films, Malmequer , in 1918 , and a documentary about Sidónio Pais . From then on he devoted his work to writing, theater and film, but also exhibited pictures.

In 1923 he married Helena Roque Gameiro , the daughter of the painter Alfredo Roque Gameiro . In 1926 he made a documentary about the city of Curía and the fishermen of Nazaré; 1930 a feature film Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica , a humorous episodic film, and Maria do Mar , which is regarded as a major work in Portuguese silent film . In the following year, his film A Severa was the first sound film in his home country. The film was partly shot in Paris ; René Clair participated in the script.

By 1949 he made ten other films - including one about the poet Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage in 1936, Varanda dos Rouxinóis in 1939 , a comedy about the misfortunes of a cyclist at the Volta a Portugal , and Ala-Arriba in 1942 ! in the fishing environment of Póvoa de Varzim , with whom he won the "Coppa della Biennale" at the Venice Film Festival ; he also took part in the first film festival in Cannes with his film about Portugal's national poet Luís de Camões - and several documentaries, on which he concentrated after 1949 until his last work in 1966.

In 1967 he succumbed to cancer .

After the Carnation Revolution of 1974, he was seen primarily in the light of his works, which were inclined to Salazar's Estado Novo dictatorship . In the history of Portuguese film, he was considered a right-wing director , similar to António Lopes Ribeiro . Only over time did the critics re-evaluate his films.

Filmography

  • 1918: Mal de Espanha
  • 1918: O Homem dos Olhos Tortos (not finished)
  • 1918: Malmequer
  • 1918: Sidónio Pais - Proclamação do Presidente da República (missing)
  • 1929: Nazaré, Praia de Pescadores (second half missing)
  • 1927: Festas da Curia
  • 1930: Lisboa
Scene from Maria do Mar (1930)
  • 1930: Maria do Mar
  • 1931: A Severa
  • 1935: As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
  • 1936: Bocage
  • 1936: Las Tres Gracias
  • 1937: Maria Papoila
  • 1937: Legião Portuguesa
  • 1937: Mocidade Portuguesa
  • 1939: Varanda dos Rouxinóis
  • 1939: A Pesca do Atum
  • 1942: Ala-Arriba!
  • 1942: A Póvoa de Varzim
  • 1944: Inês de Castro
  • 1946: Camões
  • 1949: Vendaval Maravilhoso
  • 1960: Comemorações Henriquinas
  • 1961: A Ponte da Arrábida Sobre o Rio Douro
  • 1962: Escolas de Portugal
  • 1966: A Ponte Salazar Sobre o Rio Tejo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A.Murtinheira & I. Metzeltin History of Portuguese Cinema 1st Edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 141
personal data
SURNAME Leitão de Barros, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leitão de Barros, José Júlio Marques (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese director
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1967
Place of death Lisbon