- publicWebsite:
Visit - group Other Names:
description About
Director, journalist, and producer, António Lopes Ribeiro (1908-1995) was a central name in the history of Portuguese cinema in the first half of the 20th century. Movie critic since the late 1920s, he supported the European cinematographic avant-gardes and the aesthetical and technical renewal of Portuguese cinema. He directed his first film, Bailando ao sol, in 1928 and took part in the shooting of J. Leitão de Barros film’s Nazaré, praia de pescadores (1929), Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica and Maria do Mar (1930). Shortly before that, he undertook a long journey to the great movie studios of Paris, Berlin and Moscow, where he became up to speed with the most recent techniques and tendencies, and where he also met Clair, Renoir, Lang, Pabst, Eisenstein and Vertov. His first sound film was Gado Bravo (1934), made with several Jewish film actors and technicians that had just escaped from Hitler’s Germany. Ribeiro’s first big propaganda film for the New State was A Revolução de Maio (The May Revolution, 1937), whose script he wrote with António Ferro, the founder and director of the Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional (National Propaganda Office/SPN). The following year, he accompanied the head of the state, President Óscar Carmona, in a trip to the Portuguese colonies in Africa, shooting topical footage that would be used in several documentaries, as well as in his second propaganda feature film, Feitiço do Império (1940). Also in 1938, Ribeiro began producing for SPN the New State’s first newsreel, Jornal Português, which would last until 1951. With his production and distribution company Sociedade Portuguesa de Actualidades Cinematográficas (SPAC), he produced and directed many propaganda documentaries commissioned by the New State, thus earning the reputation of the regime’s official filmmaker and reinforcing his influence in the State-sponsored Sindicato Nacional dos Profissionais de Cinema (National Union of Cinema Professionals). In 1941, he founded Produções António Lopes Ribeiro, a production company that released famous comedies such as O Pai Tirano (1941), O Pátio das Cantigas (1942, directed by his brother, Francisco Ribeiro), or A Vizinha do Lado (1945); Manoel de Oliveira’s first feature film, Aniki-Bóbó (1942); or historical dramas such as Amor de Perdição (1943), Frei Luis de Sousa (1950) and O Primo Basílio (1959). Until 1974, Ribeiro produced or directed dozens of propaganda documentaries and newsreels. Between 1957 and 1974 he was also the author and host of a very popular TV show about the history of cinema titled “O Museu do Cinema” (“The Cinema Museum”).
Info
- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1908-04-16
- event Death Date 1995-04-14
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 0.4
- info Birth Place Lisbon, Portugal
- visibility Views: 2 views
-
star User Ratings:
image Images
smart_display Movies and TV shows by António Lopes Ribeiro
0
Lisboa de Hoje e de Amanhã
1948-01-01
6.4
Lusitanian Illusion
2010-04-22
9
Chuva na Areia
1985-01-07
movie_edit Directing
9
The People We Civilized
1944-01-01
9
Guinea-Bissau, Cradle of the Empire
1946-01-01
9
The Courtyard of the Ballads
1942-01-23
9
The Tyrannical Father
1941-09-19
9
The Tyrannical Father
1941-09-19
9
The Tyrannical Father
1941-09-19
9
The Girl Next Door
1945-05-07
9
Frei Luís de Sousa
1950-09-21
9
Frei Luís de Sousa
1950-09-21
9
The Spell of the Empire
1940-05-23
9
The Spell of the Empire
1940-05-23
9
The Spell of the Empire
1940-05-23
9
Gado Bravo
1934-08-08
9
A Revolução de Maio
1937-06-06
9
A Revolução de Maio
1937-06-06
9
The Presidential Journey to Brazil
1957-07-11
9
Camões
1946-09-20
9
Doomed Love
1943-10-11
9
O Cortejo Histórico de Lisboa
1947-01-01
9
The Tyrant Father
2022-07-14
9
30 years with Salazar
1957-01-01
9
Nazaré, Praia de Pescadores
1929-01-23
9
O Primo Basílio
1960-03-16
9
Frei Luís de Sousa
1950-09-21
9
Frei Luís de Sousa
1950-09-21
9
Aniki-Bóbó
1942-12-18
9
Aniki-Bóbó
1942-12-18
9
Doomed Love
1943-10-11
9
The Courtyard of the Ballads
1942-01-23
9
The Courtyard of the Ballads
1942-01-23
9
The Girl Next Door
1945-05-07
9
The Tyrannical Father
1941-09-19
9
Camões
1946-09-20
9
The Spell of the Empire
1940-05-23
9
Lisboa de Hoje e de Amanhã
1948-01-01
9
Lisboa de Hoje e de Amanhã
1948-01-01
9
Lisbon, Anecdotal Chronicle
1930-04-01
9
O Primo Basílio
1960-03-16
9
Maria of the Sea
1930-05-20
9
Maria of the Sea
1930-05-20
9
Lisbon, Anecdotal Chronicle
1930-04-01
9
As Rodas de Lisboa
1951-01-01