Luís Miguel Cintra
Luís Miguel Cintra (born April 29, 1949 in Madrid , Spain ) is a Portuguese theater director and actor .
Career
He was born in Madrid as the son of the Portuguese philologist Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra . In 1966 he began his studies at the Faculty of Literature at the University of Lisbon , which he completed with a thesis on Romance Philology . In 1967 he joined the faculty's theater group. From 1971 to 1973 he attended the English Bristol Old Vic Theater School, with a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation . Back in Lisbon, he and Jorge Silva Melo founded the Teatro da Cornucópia , which quickly became one of the most renowned theaters in the country. As a first play, Cintra staged The Misanthrope of Molière there . Pieces by u. a. Marivaux , Maxim Gorki , Brecht and Georg Büchner's Woyzeck . His Valentin staging E nicht se pode exterminá-lo? 1979 was filmed by the Swedish director Solveig Nordlund and broadcast as a five-part television program by the RTP . In 1987 he staged his first opera, Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, at the Lisbon Teatro Nacional de São Carlos .
In 1989 he staged a play outside of Portugal, La Mort du Prince et Autres Fragments by Fernando Pessoa , for the Avignon Festival for the first time , which was performed again in January 1990 at the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris . The theater, especially at its Teatro da Cornucópia , has remained Cintra's main field of activity to this day, although Cintras has always appeared in front of the camera as a film actor.
In the 1990s he also wrote the script for various television games. In 1989 he recorded the audio book of Camilo Castelo Branco's classic Amor de Perdição .
After receiving an honorary award from the city of Paris in 1995, President Jorge Sampaio awarded him the Portuguese Order of St. Jacob of the Sword in the rank of Grand Officer in 1998.
reception
Since João César Monteiro won him for Portuguese cinema from 1970, Cintra has been considered the most convincing actor in Portugal. His distinctive voice, his convincing, haunting play, for example in roles as a suffering, powerful man or tormented by fate, not only convinced the theater audience, but subsequently also the film buffs . Monteiro and Manoel de Oliveira in particular were able to offer him figures in which his intelligence and multifaceted game came to full bloom. He is already assured of a place of honor as one of the most important actors in the country in recent decades.
Filmography
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literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962 - 1988. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989 ISBN 972-21-0446-2 .
- Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989 - 2003. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-21-1763-7 .
- A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of Portuguese cinema. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 .
Web links
- Luís Miguel Cintra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Detailed interview (port.) (PDF; 3.8 MB)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962 - 1988. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, page 97f.
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989 - 2003. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 148.
- ↑ IMDb
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962 - 1988. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, page 98.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cintra, Luís Miguel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese theater director and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid , Spain |