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
Simon Calls (2020)
América (2011)
Under My Skin (2011)
Amor Cego (2010)
Sweet Valentine (2010)
Dores & Amores (2010)
The Dead Queen (2009)
The Easy Way (2008)
Sleepwalking Land (2007)
Fragile(s) (2007)
Hotel Tívoli (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)
Julie, chevalier de Maupin (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)
Wounded (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)
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)
Dribbling Fate (1998)
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 cœur (1995)
Une femme dans la tourmente (1995)
Paraíso Perdido (1995)
Le Cœur étincelant (1995)
The Eagle and the Horse (1994)
Passagem por Lisboa (1994)
D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
Here on Earth (1993)
Rosa Negra (1993)
Coma (1993)
Shuttlecock (1993)
Belle Époque (1992)
The Charlots Return (1992)
Feu Adrien Muset (1992)
1871 (1990)
Dédé (1990)
Love Comedy (1989)
Street of No Return (1989)
Le commissaire épate le FBI (1989)
Contrainte par corps (1988)
Sanguines (1988)
Ennemis intimes (1987)
The Jester (1987)
La Brute (1987)
Balada da Praia dos Cães (1987)
Exit-exil (1986)
Saudades Para Dona Genciana (1986)
Lives (1984)
As Armas e o Povo (1975)
Meus Amigos (1974)
The Circle (1970)
Change of Life (1967)
Alta Velocidade (1967)
Sunday Afternoon (1966)
Catembe (1965)
Enchanted Isles (1965)
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, Madeira, Portugal
CitizenshipsPortugal
AwardsGrand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry
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