Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel de Oliveira was born in Porto on 11 December 1908, into a family of industrialists. An athlete, pole-vault champion and racing driver, he entered cinema as an extra before directing a first documentary in 1931. After the failure of his first feature film, he devoted himself for many years to a family wine estate. His career lasted more than eighty years; from the seventies onwards, he made almost one film a year, in an increasingly theatrical style. The doyen of working filmmakers, he presented his last film at the age of one hundred and five and died in Porto on 2 April 2015, aged one hundred and six.

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• CinemaAniki-BóbóManoel de Oliveira · 1942Cinema