Canto e Castro
Acting
Biography
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Born: April 24, 1930
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Known For
O Fura-Vidas
The misadventures of the two Fintas brothers Joca and Quim who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.
O Processo dos Távoras
Guardian Angel
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.
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.
Requiem
What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, discovering how it modifies our comprehension of life. It's based in one of Tabucci's (the italian writer)books: "Requiem". This few lines cannot resume the greatness of this movie. The last thing I can say is: If you like art, I recommend you to see it. If you ever wonder about the nature of dreams, or you live in dreams half of the time, I think you'll feel like this movie was made for you.
Life Is Beautiful
Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
Foreign Land
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring.
Jaime
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
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.
A Raia dos Medos
Filmography
as Grandfather
as Delo (idoso)
as Mestre
as Fátima's father
as Old Zé Vera
as Dr. Fabrício
as Padre Malagrida
as Sr. Ferreira
as Mário
as Manuel Delgado
as Moreira
as Padre Manuel
as Governor
as Colonel Lauro
as Salieri
as Dr. Alfredo
as Laurentino
as Artur
as Grandfather, Albino Fintas
as Eugénio
as Motorcycle Salesman
as Hipólito, the older Priest
as Marquês de Albuquerque
as The lame man of the lottery
as Colonel
as Rally Speaker
as Dowding
as Sir Hugh
as Grelinhos
as Rufino
as Alexandre
as Porteiro
as old man
as Pregador
as Coronel Julião Saraiva
as João da Silva
as Vários Papéis
as Beatriz' Grandfather
as Cautelas
as Próprio
as Soares
as Principal Singing Monk
as Vitor
as Priest
as Farmer
as Jonathan Swift/Damião de Góis
as Mendonça
as Homem de negócios
as Luís Gamão
as José António
as (voice)
as Eloi
as L'inspecteur
as Manuel Figueiredo
as Alves
as Neves
as Gomes
as Nogueira
as The Father
as Father
as Father António Vieira
as Cliente Bar
as Father
as Avô
as (voice)
as Dramatização
as Office Chief
as Man in the Bus
as Comandante Orlando Câmara
as Padre Tomás
as Mestre
as Óscar