Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me

Synopsis

“An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematic inventions. He lived for over a century, over a century of cinema, cinema in its entirety. For him, and for me too now, documentary and fiction films go hand in hand; it is all about cinema. So I had the audacity to film a magnificent story that Manoel loved but never filmed, one that he left behind as if his hand and eyes were close to God, or among the gods, and he was steering me.” - João Botelho

Main Cast

João Botelho

Narrator (voice)

Age : 75 | Popularity : 8%

Mariana Dias

Rapariga das Luvas Brancas

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

António Durães

Pai

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Ângela Marques

Mãe

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Maria João Pinho

Irmã

Age : N/A | Popularity : 13%

Leonor Silveira

Dona do Bordel

Age : N/A | Popularity : 10%

Marcello Urgeghe

Cliente

Age : N/A | Popularity : 15%

Miguel Nunes

Jovem Bonito

Age : 36 | Popularity : 4%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	João Botelho
Writing	Screenplay	João Botelho
Camera	Director of Photography	João Ribeiro
Production	Producer	Alexandre Oliveira
	Production Assistant	Pedro Augusto Almeida
Sound	Music	Nicholas McNair
	Sound Designer	Paulo Abelho João Botelho
	Sound Mixer	João Eleutério
Department	Role	Name

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