Paula Guedes
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 12, 1953
Place of Birth: Matosinhos, Portugal
Known For
The Gravedigger
Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where heads bounce, but you hear a song.
Zéfiro
Zephyrus is a film-voyage, a fresco about Southern Portugal. A movie dealing metaphorically with the South of Portugal, singling it out as a place where various cultures came together and mix, giving birth to a singular identity, as unique as this movie itself, a mixture of fiction and documentary
Torquemada
Last feature film of Stanislav Barabas
O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas
The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago, during the conquests of D. Afonso Henriques.
The Jester
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Lent
David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years. There he meets his cousin's wife Ana, who intrigues him, and this trip, which should have ended with the funeral, turns into a long stay.
Chiquititas
April Captains
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Ballad of Dog Beach
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
Nocturne for a Forest
Portugal. 15th century. Monks build a wall around a forest to bar the entry of women. But in the world of the unseen, lit by their souls, women have made their kingdom of invisibility without walls.
Filmography
as Josefa d’Óbidos
as Boss
as Margarida (Actualidade)
as Madre Superiora
as Dame anglaise
as Mother
as Ana
as Zulmira, the maid
as Úrsula
as Laia
as Elizabete
as Zélia
as woman at the wake
as Maria Ester
as Vanity's director
as Virgínia
as Angelina
as Maria Inácia
as Irene
as Shadow-Woman
as Mafalda
as Matilde
as Mariana de Vilares (voice)
as Self
as Rita Portugal
as Zaiza
as Voice of Mena de Ataíde (voice) (uncredited)
as Second saleswoman
as Anka
as Suzana
as Ana
as Teresinha
as Brothel girl #3