António da Cunha Telles

António da Cunha Telles was born in Funchal on 26 February 1935, the son of a lawyer and a Danish singer. He gave up medicine to study cinema in Paris from 1955 to 1960, at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, where he met Paulo Rocha. Back in Portugal, he produced the first films of several directors of the Novo Cinema, which the public shunned, and his company went bankrupt. In 1971 he founded a distribution company that changed what was seen in cinemas, ran the Portuguese Film Institute and Tobis, then returned to production. He died in Lisbon in November 2022.

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