João César Monteiro

João César Monteiro was born in Figueira da Foz on 2 February 1939, into a family hostile to the regime, and moved to Lisbon at the age of fifteen. A film critic for several journals, he left in 1963 to study at the London School of Film Technique thanks to a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation. An irreverent and controversial figure, he later created the character of João de Deus, whom he played himself, and received the Silver Lion at Venice in 1989, then a Grand Jury Prize. He died in Lisbon on 3 February 2003.

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• CinemaSilvestreJoão César Monteiro · 1981Cinema