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Filmmaker · Portugal

José Álvaro Morais

Died in 2004

José Álvaro Morais was born in Coimbra on 2 September 1943 and grew up in Covilhã. He gave up medicine to study directing in Brussels, where André Delvaux was his teacher, and returned to Portugal in 1974. Assistant to António-Pedro Vasconcelos, he made a documentary portrait of the painter Vieira da Silva before his fiction films. He left only six films, including two last feature films acclaimed in the early 2000s, and died in Lisbon on 30 January 2004.

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