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Filmmaker · Portugal

António Lopes Ribeiro

Died in 1995

António Lopes Ribeiro was born in Lisbon on 16 April 1908. A critic from the mid-twenties, he founded the film magazines Imagem, Kino and Animatógrafo; in 1929 he visited the studios of Paris, Berlin and Moscow, where he went to learn the techniques of cinema and propaganda. He became the regime's official filmmaker, celebrating its foundation in a feature film of 1937, worked for the national radio, produced the early films of Manoel de Oliveira and, until 1974, presented a television programme devoted to cinema. He died in Lisbon on 14 April 1995.

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