João Sezar Monteiro ( port. João César Monteiro , February 2, 1939 , Figueira da Foz - February 3, 2003 , Lisbon ) - Portuguese film director, actor, writer, the most prominent representative of Portugal's cinema .
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| Date of Birth | February 2, 1939 |
| Place of Birth | Figueira da Foz |
| Date of death | February 3, 2003 (64 years) |
| Place of death | Lisbon |
| Citizenship |  Portugal |
| Profession | director , actor , writer |
| Career | 1969 - 2003 |
| Awards | Silver Lion Venice Film Festival |
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Biography
From a wealthy family of landowners, but at the same time anticlericals and opposed to the Salazar regime. He didn’t finish his studies in a privately closed Lisbon College: he was expelled. In 1963 - 1965, under the grant of the Gulbenkian Foundation, he studied at the London School of Film Engineering. He wrote articles about cinema. He made his debut in 1969 with a documentary about Sophia de Mello Brainer . As an actor he performed in his own films, with Manuel de Oliveira and other Portuguese directors.
He died of cancer.
Creativity
Filmed documentary and short films. The most famous trilogy about Joan de Deus (Joan of God), in many respects whose autobiographical role he played himself:
- Memories of the Yellow House / Recordações da Casa Amarela ( 1989 , Silver Lion of the Venice Film Festival )
- Comedy about João Divine / A Comédia de Deus ( 1995 , dedicated to the memory of Serge Dane ; Big Special Prize of the jury of the Venice Film Festival, nomination for the Golden Lion )
- The Wedding of Joan of God / As Bodas de Deus ( 1999 , award for the best film at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival)
The trilogy was continued by the self-portrait film There and Here ( port. Vai e Vem , 2003 ), completed by the director shortly before his death: he also played the main role in it himself.
Monteiro dreamed of making a film based on the Garden's novel Philosophy in a boudoir , but found the plan impracticable.
The experimental tape Snow White ( port. Branca de Neve , 2000 ) was created based on the novel of the same name by Robert Walser : it was shot on a black screen, so that the actors are represented only by votes.
Literature
- Pour João César Monteiro: contre tous les feux, le feu, mon feu / Ludovic Colin, ed. Crisnée: Yellow Now, 2004
- João giullare di Dio / Francesco Giarrusso, ed. Pisa: ETS, 2007
Links
- Autobiography (port.)
- Official site (port.)