António Assunção
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 29, 1945
Place of Birth: Paços de Ferreira, Portugal
Known For
Ballet Rose
When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.
Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve.
The House of the Spirits
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Chronicle of Good Hoodlums
This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to steal precious jewels from the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The weapon of choice? Bees!
La Brute
Jacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to having committed. Jacques refuses to explain himself to his wife. His lawyer, Mr. Deliot, however, will try to discover the truth, because he is convinced that his client is innocent.
Dédé
In this retelling of the story of Hamlet, the young man is a soldier on leave to attend his widowed mother's marriage to his uncle - a marriage which is unpleasantly near in time to the death of his father. Every element of Shakespeare's tragic story is present, except that, this time, Dede refuses to kill anyone, no matter how persistent his father's frustrated ghost is.
The Stone Soup
In Ribatejo, a good-natured friar, to whom people refuse begged food, decides to overcome such selfishness through a ruse: 'With this stone, I am capable of making a rich soup,' he says to a pair of gullible peasants... From the series Traditional Portuguese Tales.
Duarte e C.ª
An entertaining and comical detective series featuring over-the-top stories, spectacular chase scenes, and hilarious villains.
Aquela Cativa que me tem Cativo
Já Está
Filmography
as Juiz Conselheiro
as Reinaldo
as Alfaiate
as Inspector
as Adelino
as D. Borges
as Francisco Cunha
as Sr. Antunes
as António Miraldino
as Man at Cattlemarket
as Carlinhos
as Imperador Nero
as Nunes
as Tenente Couceiro
as Le gardien de prison
as Dramatização
as Tó
as Chefe da Polícia
as Hotel Manager
as Duarte
as Narrator