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Luís Miguel Cintra
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An iconic actor and stage director in Portugal, Luís Miguel Cintra was born in Madrid, in 1949. His connection to theater began in 1968, at the Faculty of Letters Theater Group, when he was studying Romance Philology at the University of Lisbon. From 1970 to 1972, he attended the Acting Technical Course, in the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, thanks to a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. When he returned to Portugal, he founded, along with Jorge Silva Melo, the Teatro da Cornucópia Company, in 1973, where he directed plays by some of the great names in theater, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Strindberg, and many others, almost always particip…
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An iconic actor and stage director in Portugal, Luís Miguel Cintra was born in Madrid, in 1949. His connection to theater began in 1968, at the Faculty of Letters Theater Group, when he was studying Romance Philology at the University of Lisbon. From 1970 to 1972, he attended the Acting Technical Course, in the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, thanks to a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. When he returned to Portugal, he founded, along with Jorge Silva Melo, the Teatro da Cornucópia Company, in 1973, where he directed plays by some of the great names in theater, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Strindberg, and many others, almost always participating as an actor in the plays he directed. At the same time, until the 80s, he was a theater critic for O Tempo e o Modo magazine and he managed the Seara Nova Theater Collection, from Estampa publishing house, and the Theater Collection, from Ulmeiro publishing house. As a reader, Luís Miguel Cintra recorded complete readings of Viagens na Minha Terra, by Almeida Garrett and Amor de Perdição, by Camilo Castelo Branco, as well as poems by Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Camões, Antero de Quental and Ruy Belo. In 1987, Cintra made his debut as an opera stage director, with L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, by Ravel and Dido and Aeneas, by Purcell, at the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos. In the following years, he directed operas by Mozart, Haydn, Cherubini, among others. He worked with the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos Choir and the Gulbenkian Choir, as a reader, in recitals by authors such as Schubert, Liszt, Sati and Poulenc. In 1984, he entered the Venice Biennial Theater Festival with his group and in 1988 he directed the show La Mort du Prince et Autres Fragments, by Fernando Pessoa, for the Avignon Festival. Later, he kept on presenting plays in Italy, France, Spain and. Belgium In addition to the theater, Luís Miguel Cintra began his career in cinema early, making his debut in a short film by João César Monteiro. From that point until now, he worked in over 70 films, with directors like the aforementioned João César Monteiro, Paulo Rocha, Manoel de Oliveira, Joaquim Pinto, João Botelho, Teresa Villaverde, Pedro Costa and the American John Malkovich. His many awards include two Bordalo da Casa da Imprensa Awards for Best Acting in Film (1995) and Best Acting in Theater (1997), two Globos de Ouro for Theater Personality of the Year (1999) and Best Theater Actor (2003), the Coimbra University Award and the Pessoa Prize, both in 2005. The LEFFEST will pay tribute to Luís Miguel Cintra’s work as an actor, through a selection of films he starred in; and as a stage director, showing recordings of some of the plays, followed by discussions with the audience and several actors he worked with.
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BODY OF WORK
Luís Miguel Cintra's Filmography
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Auto da Casa
Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia
The Life of Mirrors
Arrabalde
as Prof. Luís
We Are on Air
as Voz
Truth or Dare?
as Self
O Filme Feliz :)
Love Lights
Pathos
Pathos Ethos Logos
Around Rocha’s Table
as Self
A Present Light
War
as Cabo Mira
Manuel Casimiro - Pintar a Ideia
as Narrador
Rage
as Camacho
No Poster
Anteroom
No Poster
Días color naranja
Correspondences
The Old Man of Belem
as Luís de Camões
Illusion
The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John
If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
as Vitalino
Biette
as Self
Second Hand
as Henrique Castro Lima
No Poster
The Enclosure of Time
as Louis Canterel
Gebo and the Shadow
as Chamico
Demain?
as Ruben Dario
The world that was (and that is)
as Narrator
The Strange Case of Angelica
as Engenheiro
The Sword and the Rose
as Rosa 2
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta
as Narrator
Romance de Vila do Conde
as Narrator
No Poster
Pas Perdus
as (voice)
From Now On
as António
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
as Diretor Museu Porto Santo
No Poster
One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
as Devil
No Poster
Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
Magic Mirror
as Filipe Quinta
The Fifth Empire
as Simão, Sapateiro Santo
The Days When I Don’t Exist
as L'oncle
A Talking Picture
as Himself
The Dancer Upstairs
as Calderón
The Wolf of the West Coast
The Uncertainty Principle
as Daniel Roper
Rending
as professor
Word and Utopia
as Padre António Vieira (middle age)
The Heart's Root
as Catão
Snow White
as O Caçador
Moonfish
as Dr. João José
No Poster
Erros Meus
as Luís de Camões
April Captains
as Brigadeiro Pais
No Poster
Os 25 Anos do Teatro da Cornucópia
as Himself
The Spousals of God
as God's Messenger
The Letter
as M. da Silva
Inquietude
as Son
Transatlantique
as Aquilino
The Convent
as Baltar
Casa de Lava
as Actor convidado
Blind Man's Bluff
as Blind Man
Two Brothers, My Sister
as Friend at the Apartment
Here on Earth
as Miguel
Abraham's Valley
as Carlos de Paiva
Zéfiro
as Narrator
Villa Mauresque
as Tiago
Poor George
as Highschool Teacher Luis
Day of Despair
as Freitas Fortuna
The Last Dive
as Hyperion Extracts Reader (voice)
No Poster
Alcibíades
as Voice
The Divine Comedy
as Prophet
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
as 2nd Lt. Cabrita / Viriato / King John II of Portugal
Blood
as The Uncle
Recollections of the Yellow House
as Lívio
Where the Sun Beats
as Artur (voice)
No Poster
A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional
as Narrator
The Cannibals
as Viscount d'Aveleda
Tall Stories
as Dr. Fernando
The Jester
as Count of Trava
The Mountains of the Moon
as João
The Distant Land
My Case
as L'Intrus
The Satin Slipper
as Don Rodrigue
No One Twice
as Carlos
No Poster
Vertiges
as Herbert Ardown
Lisboa Cultural
Signals of Life
Gestures and Fragments
as Armando (voice)
Island of Loves
as Wenceslau de Moraes
Silvestre
as Pilgrim / Knight / D. Raimundo
E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?
as Valentin 1
No Poster
Neither Bird Nor Fish
O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho
A Pousada das Chagas
Fragments of an Alms-Film
as Narrator (voice)
He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits for Dead Men's Shoes
as Lívio
No Poster