Biography
Director, journalist, and producer, António Lopes Ribeiro (1908-1995) was a central name in the history of Portuguese cinema in the first half of the 20th century. Movie critic since the late 1920s, he supported the European cinematographic avant-gardes and the aesthetical and technical renewal of Portuguese cinema. He directed his first film, Bailando ao sol, in 1928 and took part in the shooting of J. Leitão de Barros film’s Nazaré, praia de pescadores (1929), Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica and Maria do Mar (1930). Shortly before that, he undertook a long journey to the great movie studios of Paris, Berlin and Moscow, where he became up to speed with the most recent techniques and tendencies, and where he also met Clair, Renoir, Lang, Pabst, Eisenstein and Vertov. His first sound film was Gado Bravo (1934), made with several Jewish film actors and technicians that had just escaped from Hitler’s Germany. Ribeiro’s first big propaganda film for the New State was A Revolução de Maio (The May Revolution, 1937), whose script he wrote with António Ferro, the founder and director of the Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional (National Propaganda Office/SPN). The following year, he accompanied t…
Directed
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The Tyrannical Father (1941) — Director
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The Girl Next Door (1945) — Director
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Frei Luís de Sousa (1950) — Director
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Doomed Love (1943) — Director
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O Primo Basílio (1959) — Director
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Gado Bravo (1934) — Director
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A Revolução de Maio (1937) — Director
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The Spell of the Empire (1940) — Director
- The Presidential Journey to Brazil (1957) — Director
- O Cortejo Histórico de Lisboa (1947) — Director
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30 years with Salazar (1957) — Director
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Lisboa de Hoje e de Amanhã (1948) — Director
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As Rodas de Lisboa (1951) — Director
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The People We Civilized (1944) — Director
- Guinea-Bissau, Cradle of the Empire (1946) — Director
- Faina do Rio e do Mar (1959) — Director
