Luís Miguel Cintra

Luís Miguel Cintra ( born April 29, 1949 in Madrid, Spain) is a Portuguese theater director and actor.

Career

He was born in Madrid, the son of Portuguese philologist Luis Filipe Lindley Cintra. In 1966 he began studying at the Literature Faculty of the University of Lisbon, where he graduated with a thesis on Romance Philology. As early as 1967 he had joined the theater group of the faculty connected. From 1971 to 1973 he attended the English Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation. Back in Lisbon, he and Jorge Silva Melo along the Teatro da Cornucopia, which rose quickly to the most prestigious theaters in the country. As the first piece of Cintra staged there The Misanthrope by Molière. This was followed by pieces of, inter alia, Marivaux, Maxim Gorky, Brecht and Georg Büchner's Woyzeck. His Valentin E não se pode - staging extermina -lo? 1979 was filmed by Swedish director Solveig Nordlund and aired as a five-part television broadcast by RTP. In 1987, he staged his first opera, Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell at the Lisbon Teatro Nacional de São Carlos.

In 1989, he staged a play for the first time outside Portugal, La Mort du Prince et Autres fragment of Fernando Pessoa, for the festival of Avignon, which was performed in January 1990 at the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris again. The theater, especially at his Teatro da Cornucopia, remains to this day the primary activity of Cintra, who also stood still again and again as a film actor before the camera.

In the 1990s, he also wrote the screenplay for various television dramas. In 1989, he spoke the audiobook of Camilo Castelo Branco's classics Amor de Perdição.

After a Ehrauszeichnung the city of Paris in 1995 him the Portuguese Order of St. Jakob in 1998 by President Jorge Sampaio awarded by the sword in the Grand Officer rank.

Reception

Since João César Monteiro won it in 1970 for the Portuguese cinema, Cintra is considered the most convincing actor Portugal. His distinctive voice and his compelling, immersive, such as roles as suffering Mighty or by fate Tortured, thus not only convinced the theater audience, but as a result the film buffs. Especially Monteiro and Manoel de Oliveira could offer him here figures in which his intelligence and his multi-faceted game came to full bloom. Such a place of honor as one of the most important actors of the country in recent decades it is safe today.

Filmography

• 2000: Branca de Neve ( R: João César Monteiro )
• 2001: La espalda de Dios ( R: Pablo Llorca )
• 2001: Rasganço ( R: Raquel Freire )
• 2002: The Dancer Upstairs ( " The Dancer Upstairs " ) (R: John Malkovich )
• 2002: O Principio because Incerteza ( R: Manoel de Oliveira )
• 2002: Le loup de la côte Quest ( R: Hugo Santiago)
• 2002: Les jours où per n'existe pas ( R: Jean -Charles Fitoussi )
• 2003: To Movies Falado - Travel to Bombay ( " To Movies Falado " ) (R: Manoel de Oliveira )
• 2004: O Quinto Império - Ontem Como Hoje ( R: Manoel de Oliveira )
• 2005: Espelho Mágico ( R: Manoel de Oliveira )
• 2007: Christopher Columbus - The Enigma ( " Cristóvão Colombo - O Enigma" ) (R: Manoel de Oliveira )
• 2007: It goes ahead ( " Daqui P'ra Frente " ) (R: Catarina Ruivo )
• 2008: O Vitral ea Santa Morte ( R: Manoel de Oliveira )
• 2008: Romance de Vila do Conde ( R: Manoel de Oliveira )
• 2009: peculiarities of a young blonde ( " Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura " ) (R: Manoel de Oliveira )
• 2009: O Destino do Senhor Sousa ( R: Joao Constancio )
• 2010: O Caso de Angélica Estranho ( R: Manoel de Oliveira )
• 2010: A Espada ea Rosa ( R: João Nicolau )
• 2011: El mundo que fue y el que it ( R: Pablo Llorca ) voice
• 2012: Demain? ( R: Christine Laurent )
• 2012: Olhos Vermelhos ( R: Paulo Rocha )
• 2012: Gebo et l' ombre ( R: Manoel de Oliveira )