João Botelho

João Botelho was born in Lamego on 11 May 1949. He studied in Coimbra and then at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon, and at first made documentaries. Since then he has kept on filming texts: Dickens, Diderot, and from his own country Garrett, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Eça de Queiroz and Pessoa, to whom he returned some thirty years after his debut. Several of his films have been shown at Cannes and Venice, and he has often produced them himself.

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• CinemaThe Other OneConversa AcabadaJoão Botelho · 1981Cinema