Perdigão Queiroga
José Manuel Nobre Perdigão Queiroga (born May 12, 1916 in Évora , † May 8, 1980 in Alcoentre ) was a Portuguese film director and producer .
Life
He began his cinema career as an assistant in films such as Aldeia da Roupa Branca ( Chianca de Garcia 1938), Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca ( Arthur Duarte 1938), O Pai Tirano ( António Lopes Ribeiro 1941), and João Ratão ( Jorge Brum do Canto 1940), where he also played a supporting role. He also assisted O Pátio das Cantigas ( Francisco Ribeiro 1941) and Lobos da Serra (Jorge Brum do Canto 1942) and also took over the camera in both. In Manoel de Oliveira precursor of neorealism from 1942, Aniki Bóbó , he also assisted.
In 1943 he went to Paramount Studios for Pathé in the USA , and after his return in 1946 worked for the production company Lisboa Filmes . There he received a generous offer in 1947 to direct his first feature film. Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira with the singer Amália Rodrigues , became a commercial success and ensured that Fado was further established and developed . He then continued to work for other directors, such as the editing of Arthur Duarte's O Grande Elias (1950) or the camera for the color film A Costureirinha da Sé ( Manuel Guimarães 1958). His next directorial work Sonhar é Fácil (1951, with António Silva as the founder of the cooperative moving from the city to the countryside ), the class conflict melodrama Madragoa from 1952, and the comedy Os Três da Vida Airada (1952), which is typical of the time, were the last popular highlights of the Portuguese Entertainment film, which was now increasingly in decline. Outdated recipes from the established directors, a lack of time-appropriate scripts, and the advent of television were reasons for this. In this phase, Queiroga did not succeed either, despite initial vigor, in giving Portuguese film new impetus. He shot his color film As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor in 1961 as the first in Portugal in Cinemascope and he hired two actors from Brazil to increase his commercial opportunities there, but the film was not the desired success, either commercially or artistically.
Queiroga shifted increasingly to the production of films, and shot more documentaries himself, on the order of the Estado Novo regime or as advertising films for companies. In contrast to Salazar's staunch supporters , the "directors of the regime António Lopes Ribeiro and José Leitão de Barros , Queiroga only did this for a living and without any particular zeal, albeit uncritically. He only made two feature films ( O Parque das Ilusões and O Milionário , both 1963), which went without any special mention of the criticism.
Filmography
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script
- 1962: O Milionário
- 1961: As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
- 1953: Planície Heróica
- 1952: Os Três da Vida Airada
- 1951: Sonhar É Fácil
literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 . Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, ISBN 972-21-0446-2 .
- Alcides Murtinheira, Igor Metzeltin: History of Portuguese Cinema . Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 .
Web links
- Perdigão Queiroga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.plcs.umassd.edu/forthcomingarticles/michaelcolvin.htm
- ↑ http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/clpic/tematicos/cinema/realizadores/queiroga_perdigao.html
- ↑ A.Murtinheira / I.Metzeltin: history of Portuguese cinema 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 82nd
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 , 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, page 319f.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Queiroga, Perdigão |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perdigão Queiroga, José Manuel Nobre (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese film director and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Évora |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1980 |
| Place of death | Alcoentre |