António da Cunha Telles

António da Cunha Telles

Known for: Production
Biography: 1935-02-26
Deathday: 2022-11-23 (87 years old)

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 120

Movies 118

Producer 107

Director 6

self 3

TV Shows 2

Narrator 1

Executive Producer
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The Dead Queen

The Dead Queen (2009)

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Executive Producer
The Easy Way

The Easy Way (2008)

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Executive Producer
Fragile(s)

Fragile(s) (2007)

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Production Executive
Codename: Sintra

Codename: Sintra (2007)

TV
Executive Producer
Volpone

Volpone (2004)

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Executive Producer
Anatomy of Hell

Anatomy of Hell (2004)

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Executive Producer
Ruy Blas

Ruy Blas (2002)

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Executive Producer
Les frangines

Les frangines (2002)

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Associate Producer
Sex Is Comedy

Sex Is Comedy (2002)

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Executive Producer
Aniversário

Aniversário (2000)

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Associate Producer
Alta Fidelidade

Alta Fidelidade (2000)

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Delegated Producer
Monsanto

Monsanto (2000)

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Executive Producer
Jaime

Jaime (1999)

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Associate Producer
The Jew

The Jew (1996)

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Executive Producer
Fiesta

Fiesta (1995)

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Executive Producer
Antártida

Antártida (1995)

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Executive Producer
Coma

Coma (1993)

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Co-Producer
1871

1871 (1990)

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Executive Producer
Dédé

Dédé (1990)

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Executive Producer
Love Comedy

Love Comedy (1989)

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Information

Known For
Production

Gender
Male

Birthday
1935-02-26

Deathday
2022-11-23 (87 years old)

Birth Place
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Citizenships
Portugal

Awards
Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry

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