Biography
António Cohen da Cunha Telles (26 February 1935 – 23 November 2022) was a Portuguese film director and producer. Telles was born on 26 February 1935, in Funchal, Madeira. He studied Medicine in the University of Lisbon. He went to Paris around 1956, studying film-making at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques (IDHEC), graduating in 1961.
Back to Portugal, he ran a newspaper called Imagens de Portugal (Images of Portugal), and assumed leading functions at the Cinema Services of State Entities.
His directing debut was made with the documentary Os Transportes (1962), and starts activity as a producer, becoming one of the essential names of the Portuguese New Cinema (Novo Cinema) movement. He produces Os Verdes Anos (1963) by Paulo Rocha and Belarmino (1964) by Fernando Lopes.
In 1970, Cunha Telles directed his first feature-film, O Cerco. Meanwhile, he established a distribution company (Animatógrafo) which becomes responsible for a revolution in the kind of cinema seen in Portugal in the first half of the 1970s. Eisenstein, Tanner, Jorge Sanjines, Littín, Glauber Rocha, Vigo, Gilles Carle, Karmitz, among others, became more familiar to the Portuguese audience through that distributor.
During the 1970s, Telles directed three films: Meus Amigos (1974) and Continuar a Viver (1976) signed by himself, As Armas e o Povo (1975) together with other directors. In the end of the decade, Cunha Telles is found high placed as the leader of the Portuguese Cinema Institute and the Tobis Portuguesa.
In 1983, he returns to production, since the Animatógrafo firm was divided in one sector of distribution (still in activity, conducted by Renée Gagnon - the current Marfilmes) and one sector of production, headed by himself (together with his daughter Pandora da Cunha Telles - the current Filmes de Fundo), which is dedicated to its own productions as well as assuring executive productions of foreign films partially shot in Portugal, counting since that date with a large number of productions, with films directed by names like José Fonseca e Costa, Eduardo Geada, Joaquim Leitão, Edgar Pêra, António de Macedo, António-Pedro Vasconcelos and among several telefilms and a countless number of executive productions.
The later films directed by Cunha Telles include Vidas (1984), Pandora (1996) and, more recently, Kiss Me (2004), the first and only cinematic experience of the top model Marisa Cruz.
Filmography
all 119
Movies 118
Producer 106
Director 6
self 3
TV Shows 1
Narrator 1
Simon Calls (2020)
An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos (2019)
Born with a Thunderstorm (2017)
In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo (2016)
América (2011)
Under My Skin (2011)
Chamo-me António da Cunha Telles (2010)
Amor Cego (2010)
Sweet Valentine (2010)
Dores & Amores (2010)
How to Draw a Perfect Circle (2009)
The Dead Queen (2009)
True and Tender is the North (2008)
The Easy Way (2008)
Sleepwalking Land (2007)
Fragile(s) (2007)
Hotel Tívoli (2007)
The Mystery of Sintra (2007)
Theresa: The Body of Christ (2007)
Codename: Sintra (2007)
The Botanist (2006)
Flesh of My Flesh (2006)
Fin de curso (2005)
Animal (2005)
Volpone (2004)
Kiss Me (2004)
Maria e as Outras (2004)
Le pays des enfants perdus (2004)
Anatomy of Hell (2004)
The Immortals (2003)
Il court, il court, le furet... (2003)
The Pact of Silence (2003)
A Ferida (2003)
Ruy Blas (2002)
Les frangines (2002)
88 (2002)
Sex Is Comedy (2002)
Justice de femme (2002)
Mausolée pour une garce (2001)
A Man is not a Cat (2001)
Madame De... (2001)
Anjo Caído (2001)
Mais Tarde (2001)
Querida Mãe (2001)
The Invisible Circus (2001)
Cavaleiros De Água Doce (2001)
Amor Perdido (2000)
The Bird Watcher (2000)
Aniversário (2000)
A Noiva (2000)
Hijos del viento (2000)
Alta Fidelidade (2000)
Monsanto (2000)
Amo-te Teresa (2000)
Quasimodo d'el Paris (1999)
Jaime (1999)
The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Dribbling Fate (1998)
Bocage, the Triumph of Love (1997)
Death in Therapy (1996)
Foreign Land (1996)
Les Bidochon (1996)
Un asunto privado (1996)
Pandora (1996)
The Jew (1996)
Fiesta (1995)
Antártida (1995)
Runaways (1995)
La rage au coeur (1995)
Une femme dans la tourmente (1995)
Paraíso Perdido (1995)
Le Cœur étincelant (1995)
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista (1994)
The Eagle and the Horse (1994)
Passagem por Lisboa (1994)
D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
On the Edge of the Horizon (1993)
Here on Earth (1993)
Rosa Negra (1993)
Coma (1993)
Shuttlecock (1993)
Belle Époque (1992)
The Charlots Return (1992)
Feu Adrien Muset (1992)
Requiem for a Daffodil (1992)
1871 (1990)
Dédé (1990)
Love Comedy (1989)
Street of No Return (1989)
Le commissaire épate le FBI (1989)
Sans peur et sans reproche (1988)
Contrainte par corps (1988)
Sanguines (1988)
Ennemis intimes (1987)
The Jester (1987)
La Brute (1987)
Balada da Praia dos Cães (1987)
Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe (1986)
Exit-exil (1986)
Saudades Para Dona Genciana (1986)
Lives (1984)
Continuar a Viver ou Os Índios da Meia-Praia (1976)
As Armas e o Povo (1975)
Meus Amigos (1974)
Sever do Vouga... Uma Experiência (1971)
The Circle (1970)
Seven Bullets for Selma (1967)
Change of Life (1967)
Alta Velocidade (1967)
Sunday Afternoon (1966)
Catembe (1965)
The Wheat and the Tares (1965)
Enchanted Isles (1965)
The Circular Triangle (1964)
The Crime of Aldeia Velha (1964)
Belarmino (1964)
The Soft Skin (1964)
The Green Years (1963)
Portuguese Vacation (1963)
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GenderMale
Birthday1935-02-26
Deathday2022-11-23 (87 years old)
Birth PlaceFunchal, Portugal
CitizenshipsPortugal
AwardsGrand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry
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