Luís Miguel Cintra

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Movies

Born: April 29, 1949
From: Madrid, Spain

Biography

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.

Works

97 films

Auto da Casa

2026

If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal

20135.4

Illusion

2014

The Dancer Upstairs

20026.1

The Uncertainty Principle

20026.5

War

2020

Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia

2025

Rending

20016.3

A Talking Picture

20036.7

Villa Mauresque

19934.3

Gebo and the Shadow

20126.6

Christopher Columbus, The Enigma

20075.6

Transatlantique

19973.7

Zéfiro

19938.0

The Life of Mirrors

2025

Vertiges

19857.3

Pathos

2021

The Letter

19996.0

Anteroom

2018

Pas Perdus

2008

No, or the Vain Glory of Command

19906.4

April Captains

20006.5

The Strange Case of Angelica

20106.5

We Are on Air

20241.0

O Filme Feliz :)

2023

The Convent

19955.3

The Enclosure of Time

2013

Abraham's Valley

19937.4

Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

1974

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

20096.2

Os 25 Anos do Teatro da Cornucópia

200010.0

The Spousals of God

19997.0

Snow White

20005.5

Tall Stories

19885.8

Moonfish

20005.8

The Wolf of the West Coast

20024.7

Recollections of the Yellow House

19897.9

The Old Man of Belem

20144.5

The Fifth Empire

20046.5

My Case

19866.9

He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits For Dead Men's Shoes

19705.6

The Cannibals

19887.0

Días color naranja

2016

The Divine Comedy

19916.6

No One Twice

19856.5

Island of Loves

19826.5

Pathos Ethos Logos

20217.0

Magic Mirror

20066.6

Casa de Lava

19957.0

The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John

2013

Where the Sun Beats

19895.3

Truth or Dare?

202310.0

Blind Man's Bluff

19947.0

Blood

19897.0

Silvestre

19826.6

The Satin Slipper

19867.6

The Sword and the Rose

20103.6

Word and Utopia

20005.8

Two Brothers, My Sister

19946.0

Correspondences

20166.8

The Last Dive

19926.9

A Morte do Príncipe

2026

Rage

20186.9

O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta

2008

Biette

2013

Demain?

20112.0

Manuel Casimiro - Pintar a Ideia

2018

Romance de Vila do Conde

2008

The Mountains of the Moon

19876.0

The Days When I Don’t Exist

20036.4

Inquietude

19986.8

Day of Despair

19926.3

Around Rocha’s Table

2021

The Distant Land

19877.0

Love Lights

2022

The Heart's Root

20006.0

O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores

1977

The world that was (and that is)

2011

The Jester

19876.8

Fragments of an Alms-Film

19726.7

Poor George

19935.0

A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional

1988

Gestures and Fragments

19837.0

E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?

1979

Lisboa Cultural

198410.0

From Now On

20083.3

One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

20077.0

Neither Bird Nor Fish

19788.0

Second Hand

201310.0

Here on Earth

19936.0

Arrabalde

20242.0

Signals of Life

19848.0

Alcibíades

19923.7

Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side

2007

Erros Meus

20008.0

A Present Light

20214.0

A Pousada das Chagas

19726.0