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Filmmaker · Portugal

Paulo Rocha

Died in 2012

Paulo Rocha was born in Porto on 22 December 1935. He studied law in Lisbon, then studied directing at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris; two films by Jean Renoir had made up his mind, and he was his trainee assistant in 1962, which led him to meet the producer who was to launch him. Back in Portugal, he assisted Manoel de Oliveira. He headed the Portuguese Cinema Centre in the early seventies, then was, from 1975 to 1983, cultural attaché in Tokyo. He died on 29 December 2012 in Vila Nova de Gaia.

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