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
- Under My Skin ... (Producer)
- América ... (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)
- Theresa: The Body of Christ ... (Associate Producer)
- Fragile(s) ... (Executive Producer)
- The Mystery of Sintra ... (Producer)
- Sleepwalking Land ... (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)
- Le pays des enfants perdus ... (Executive Producer)
- Julie, chevalier de Maupin ... (Executive Producer)
- Kiss Me ... (Director)
- Volpone ... (Executive Producer)
- Maria e as Outras ... (Producer)
2003
- The Pact of Silence ... (Executive Producer)
- Aurélien ... (Executive Producer)
- The Immortals ... (Co-Producer)
- Il court, il court, le furet... ... (Executive Producer)
- Wounded ... (Producer)
2002
- Sex Is Comedy ... (Associate Producer)
- Ruy Blas ... (Executive Producer)
- Les Frangines ... (Executive Producer)
- Justice de femme ... (Executive Producer)
2001
- História do Cinema Português
- Mausolée pour une garce ... (Executive Producer)
- Mais Tarde ... (Producer)
- The Invisible Circus ... (Producer)
- Les Filles à papa ... (Producer)
- 8 8 ... (Producer)
- Cavaleiros De Água Doce ... (Delegated Producer)
- Querida Mãe ... (Producer)
- A Man is not a Cat ... (Producer)
- Anjo Caído ... (Producer)
2000
- Amor Perdido ... (Producer)
- Hijos del viento ... (Co-Producer)
- Aniversário ... (Executive Producer)
- A Noiva ... (Producer)
- Mustang ... (Producer)
- The Bird Watcher ... (Producer)
- Alta Fidelidade ... (Associate Producer)
- Amo-te Teresa ... (Producer)
- Monsanto ... (Delegated Producer)
1999
- Quasimodo d'el Paris ... (Producer)
- Jaime ... (Executive Producer)
1998
- Dribbling Fate ... (Co-Producer)
1997
- Bocage, the Triumph of Love ... (Producer)
1996
- Clubbed to Death ... (Executive Producer)
- Foreign Land ... (Co-Producer)
- Death in Therapy ... (Producer)
- Les Bidochon ... (Co-Producer)
- The Jew ... (Associate Producer)
- Un asunto privado ... (Executive Producer)
- Pandora ... (Writer)
1995
- Paraíso Perdido ... (Producer)
- Fiesta ... (Executive Producer)
- Le Cœur étincelant ... (Executive Producer)
- La rage au cœur ... (Executive Producer)
- Runaways ... (Producer)
- Antártida ... (Executive Producer)
- Une femme dans la tourmente ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- D'Artagnan's Daughter ... (Executive Producer)
- The Eagle and the Horse ... (Executive Producer)
- Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
- Passagem por Lisboa ... (Producer)
1993
- On the Edge of the Horizon ... (Producer)
- Shuttlecock ... (Producer)
- Here on Earth ... (Producer)
- Coma ... (Executive Producer)
- Rosa Negra ... (Producer)
1992
- Belle Époque ... (Co-Producer)
- Dark at Noon ... (Executive Producer)
- Requiem for a Daffodil ... (Producer)
- The Charlots Return ... (Executive Producer)
- Feu Adrien Muset ... (Executive Producer)
1991
- Napoleon ... (Producer)
1990
- 1871 ... (Co-Producer)
- Dédé ... (Executive Producer)
- Cinéma Portugais – Un Mode d'Emploi
1989
- Love Comedy ... (Executive Producer)
- Street of No Return ... (Executive Producer)
- Le commissaire épate le FBI ... (Associate Producer)
1988
- Contrainte par corps ... (Executive Producer)
1987
- The Jester ... (Producer)
- Ennemis intimes ... (Producer)
- Ballad of Dog Beach ... (Executive Producer)
1986
- Saudades Para Dona Genciana ... (Executive Producer)
- Exit-exil ... (Producer)
1984
- To Catch a King ... (Executive Producer)
- Lives ... (Director)
1977
- The Guns and the People ... (Director)
1976
- Continuar a Viver ou Os Índios da Meia-Praia ... (Director)
1974
- Meus Amigos ... (Editor)
1971
- Sever do Vouga... Uma Experiência ... (Producer)
1970
- The Circle ... (Director)
1967
- Alta Velocidade ... (Producer)
- Seven Bullets for Selma ... (Producer)
- Change of Life ... (Producer)
1966
- Sunday Afternoon ... (Producer)
1965
- Catembe ... (Producer)
- The Wheat and the Tares ... (Producer)
- Enchanted Isles ... (Producer)
1964
- The Soft Skin ... (Producer)
- The Crime of Aldeia Velha ... (Executive Producer)
- Belarmino ... (Producer)
- The Circular Triangle ... (Producer)
1963
- Portuguese Vacation ... (Producer)
- The Green Years ... (Producer)