António da Cunha Telles
Born: 1935-02-26 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Died: 2022-11-23
Known For: Production
Biography
António Cohen da Cunha Telles was born on February 26, 1935 in Funchal, Madeira. He studied Medicine in the University of Lisbon. He went to Paris around 1956, studying film-making at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques (IDHEC), graduating in 1961. His directing debut was made with the documentary "Os Transportes" (1962), and starts activity as a producer, becoming one of the essential names of the Portuguese New Cinema (Novo Cinema) movement. He produces "Os Verdes Anos" (1963) by Paulo Rocha and "Belarmino" (1964) by Fernando Lopes. In 1970, Cunha Telles directed his first feature-film, "O Cerco". Meanwhile, he established a distribution company (Animatógrafo) which becomes responsible for a revolution in the kind of cinema seen in Portugal in the first half of the 1970s. Eisenstein, Tanner, Jorge Sanjines, Littín, Glauber Rocha, Vigo, Gilles Carle, Karmitz, among others, became more familiar to the Portuguese audience through that distributor.
Filmography
2026
- Cherchez la Femme ... (Director)
2020
- Simon Calls ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- Rouge Brésil ... (Producer)
2011
- América ... (Producer)
- Under My Skin ... (Producer)
2010
- Sweet Valentine ... (Producer)
- Dores & Amores ... (Producer)
- Chamo-me António da Cunha Telles
- Amor Cego ... (Producer)
2009
- How to Draw a Perfect Circle ... (Producer)
- The Dead Queen ... (Executive Producer)
2008
- The Easy Way ... (Executive Producer)
- True and Tender is the North ... (Producer)
2007
- Codename: Sintra ... (Production Executive)
- Fragile(s) ... (Executive Producer)
- Sleepwalking Land ... (Producer)
- Theresa: The Body of Christ ... (Associate Producer)
- The Mystery of Sintra ... (Producer)
2006
- Flesh of My Flesh ... (Producer)
2005
- Animal ... (Co-Producer)
- Fin de curso ... (Producer)
- Entre o Desejo e o Destino ... (Producer)
2004
- Anatomy of Hell ... (Executive Producer)
- Julie, chevalier de Maupin ... (Executive Producer)
- Volpone ... (Executive Producer)
- Kiss Me ... (Director)
- Maria e as Outras ... (Producer)
- Le pays des enfants perdus ... (Executive Producer)
2003
- Aurélien ... (Executive Producer)
- The Pact of Silence ... (Executive Producer)
- The Immortals ... (Co-Producer)
- Wounded ... (Producer)
- Il court, il court, le furet... ... (Executive Producer)
2002
- Sex Is Comedy ... (Associate Producer)
- Ruy Blas ... (Executive Producer)
- Les Frangines ... (Executive Producer)
- Justice de femme ... (Executive Producer)
2001
- The Invisible Circus ... (Producer)
- História do Cinema Português
- 8 8 ... (Producer)
- Anjo Caído ... (Producer)
- Mausolée pour une garce ... (Executive Producer)
- Les Filles à papa ... (Producer)
- Querida Mãe ... (Producer)
- Cavaleiros De Água Doce ... (Delegated Producer)
- Mais Tarde ... (Producer)
- A Man is not a Cat ... (Producer)
2000
- Mustang ... (Producer)
- Hijos del viento ... (Co-Producer)
- Monsanto ... (Delegated Producer)
- Aniversário ... (Executive Producer)
- Alta Fidelidade ... (Associate Producer)
- Amo-te Teresa ... (Producer)
- A Noiva ... (Producer)
- The Bird Watcher ... (Producer)
- Amor Perdido ... (Producer)
1999
- Jaime ... (Executive Producer)
- Quasimodo d'el Paris ... (Producer)
1998
- Dribbling Fate ... (Co-Producer)
1997
- Bocage, the Triumph of Love ... (Producer)
1996
- Death in Therapy ... (Producer)
- Les Bidochon ... (Co-Producer)
- Un asunto privado ... (Executive Producer)
- Foreign Land ... (Co-Producer)
- Clubbed to Death ... (Executive Producer)
- The Jew ... (Associate Producer)
- Pandora ... (Writer)
1995
- Runaways ... (Producer)
- Fiesta ... (Executive Producer)
- La rage au cœur ... (Executive Producer)
- Antártida ... (Executive Producer)
- Paraíso Perdido ... (Producer)
- Une femme dans la tourmente ... (Executive Producer)
- Le Cœur étincelant ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- D'Artagnan's Daughter ... (Executive Producer)
- Passagem por Lisboa ... (Producer)
- Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
- The Eagle and the Horse ... (Executive Producer)
1993
- Shuttlecock ... (Producer)
- Coma ... (Executive Producer)
- Here on Earth ... (Producer)
- On the Edge of the Horizon ... (Producer)
- Rosa Negra ... (Producer)
1992
- Belle Époque ... (Co-Producer)
- Feu Adrien Muset ... (Executive Producer)
- Dark at Noon ... (Executive Producer)
- The Charlots Return ... (Executive Producer)
- Requiem for a Daffodil ... (Producer)
1991
- Napoleon ... (Producer)
1990
- 1871 ... (Co-Producer)
- Dédé ... (Executive Producer)
- Cinéma Portugais – Un Mode d'Emploi
1989
- Street of No Return ... (Executive Producer)
- Love Comedy ... (Executive Producer)
- Le commissaire épate le FBI ... (Associate Producer)
1988
- Contrainte par corps ... (Executive Producer)
1987
- Ennemis intimes ... (Producer)
- The Jester ... (Producer)
- Ballad of Dog Beach ... (Executive Producer)
1986
- Exit-exil ... (Producer)
- Saudades Para Dona Genciana ... (Executive Producer)
1984
- To Catch a King ... (Executive Producer)
- Lives ... (Director)
1976
- Continuar a Viver ou Os Índios da Meia-Praia ... (Director)
1975
- The Guns and the People ... (Director)
1974
- Meus Amigos ... (Editor)
1971
- Sever do Vouga... Uma Experiência ... (Producer)
1970
- The Circle ... (Director)
1967
- Change of Life ... (Producer)
- Alta Velocidade ... (Producer)
- Seven Bullets for Selma ... (Producer)
1966
- Sunday Afternoon ... (Producer)
1965
- Enchanted Isles ... (Producer)
- The Wheat and the Tares ... (Producer)
- Catembe ... (Producer)
1964
- The Soft Skin ... (Producer)
- The Circular Triangle ... (Producer)
- Belarmino ... (Producer)
- The Crime of Aldeia Velha ... (Executive Producer)
1963
- Portuguese Vacation ... (Producer)
- The Green Years ... (Producer)