Movies: Manoel de Oliveira

The characters from a historical piece of art come to life to discuss poignant themes such as war and world peace....

Short silent documentary from 1931 about those working on the River Douro in Oporto....

Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal....

Short documentary about the town of Famalicão, in the North of Portugal....

Every year the Viennale invites a famous director to produce a short film as the festival trailer. In 2014 the choice has fallen on the 105-year old Manoel de Oliveira....

The painter António Cruz wanders around the city of Porto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing. The impressionist realism of Cruz’s drawings dissolves into Oliveira’s vis...

The camera shows the vivid paintings by late Júlio Régio, with a narrative by his brother, while guitar tunes underline the mood and rhythm of the cinematography....

Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, according to a 16th century text....

Aninhas (Aida Lupo), a paralyzed girl, asks for a miracle from the saint of her devotion, Our Lady of Lourdes, at the chapel of Penha (Guimarães), but her prayer is not heard - She turns her devotion to the Blessed Virgin directly, and joins the mult...

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A conversation between the filmmaker Manoel de Olivieira and the writer Agustina Bessa-Luís....

A silent film depicting a meeting between Nikita Khrushchev and Pope John XXIII is screened....

A documentary following the process of sculpting in stone, from the creation to the final work of art....

A group of tourists arrives to the historical center of Guimarães. The camera goes up over the shoulder of Alfonso Henriques' statue. The first king of Portugal, holding up his sword, demands respect. Nevertheless, from there we see how the group of ...

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A look at various statues in the city of Lisbon. This film is incomplete and was distributed against the will of the director....

Reflecting the filmmaker's passion for automobiles, who in his youth participated in car races, the film portrays the attempt to manufacture a new model in the Ford factory in the city of Porto....

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira reminisces about the figure of his father, his first experience of cinema as an actor, his past as a racing driver, his f...

Film about Calouste Gulbenkian, produced for the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation....

A look at the life in the small village Vilaverdinho, in the North of Portugal. Oliveira made this film as a present for a friend. It has only been publicly shown once....