Motion Picture Director. He was the most old aged filmmaker still active. His last film was released in 2014. He made his debut in cinema in 1927. His career has spanned from the silent era to the digital age. He was appointed Grand Officier of the French Legion of Honor in 2014. Among his films "Os canibais" and "The strange case of Angelica".∼Portugesl director dies at 106
Oliveira's career began with a silent documentary about Porto, Portugal's second-largest city, in 1931. He made his first feature-length movie in 1942 but his output was sporadic until he was 76, when he began directing roughly a film every year.
Despite his huge output — more than 30 feature films and dozens of short films and documentaries — he achieved broad international recognition only in the 1990s and was best known as an art cinema auteur. He was over 100 years old when his last feature film, "Gebo and The Shadow," came out in 2012. It was in French and starred Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale and Jeanne Moreau.
He is survived by his wife, Maria Isabel, four children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Oliveira's career began with a silent documentary about Porto, Portugal's second-largest city, in 1931. He made his first feature-length movie in 1942 but his output was sporadic until he was 76, when he began directing roughly a film every year.
Despite his huge output — more than 30 feature films and dozens of short films and documentaries — he achieved broad international recognition only in the 1990s and was best known as an art cinema auteur. He was over 100 years old when his last feature film, "Gebo and The Shadow," came out in 2012. It was in French and starred Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale and Jeanne Moreau.
He is survived by his wife, Maria Isabel, four children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Motion Picture Director. He was the most old aged filmmaker still active. His last film was released in 2014. He made his debut in cinema in 1927. His career has spanned from the silent era to the digital age. He was appointed Grand Officier of the French Legion of Honor in 2014. Among his films "Os canibais" and "The strange case of Angelica".∼Portugesl director dies at 106
Oliveira's career began with a silent documentary about Porto, Portugal's second-largest city, in 1931. He made his first feature-length movie in 1942 but his output was sporadic until he was 76, when he began directing roughly a film every year.
Despite his huge output — more than 30 feature films and dozens of short films and documentaries — he achieved broad international recognition only in the 1990s and was best known as an art cinema auteur. He was over 100 years old when his last feature film, "Gebo and The Shadow," came out in 2012. It was in French and starred Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale and Jeanne Moreau.
He is survived by his wife, Maria Isabel, four children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Oliveira's career began with a silent documentary about Porto, Portugal's second-largest city, in 1931. He made his first feature-length movie in 1942 but his output was sporadic until he was 76, when he began directing roughly a film every year.
Despite his huge output — more than 30 feature films and dozens of short films and documentaries — he achieved broad international recognition only in the 1990s and was best known as an art cinema auteur. He was over 100 years old when his last feature film, "Gebo and The Shadow," came out in 2012. It was in French and starred Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale and Jeanne Moreau.
He is survived by his wife, Maria Isabel, four children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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