Alfredo Tropa
Directing
Biography
Alfredo Ricardo Rezende Tropa (Porto, March 29, 1939 - Lisbon, July 5, 2020) was a Portuguese film director. He was director of RTP's Archives and Documentation. In 1958, he left for Coimbra to attend the Faculty of Sciences and became interested in cinema through the film club movement. In 1960, in the same city, he began making short films. He went to Paris the following year, where, on a scholarship from the National Cinema Fund, he attended IDHEC and graduated in Directing. After an internship in French television, he returned to Portugal and founded Média Filmes with other filmmakers. He was assistant director on a number of films, such as Mudar de Vida, by Paulo Rocha, and Uma Abelha na Chuva, by Fernando Lopes, and also worked continuously on short films. In 1968, he joined Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP). As the founder of the Portuguese Film Centre, he was part of the first group of directors to be subsidized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in its support for the launch of the so-called Cinema Novo. Alfredo Tropa's filmography includes Inundações (short film, 1960), Regata (short film, 1968), Um Homem, Uma Obra (short film, 1973), Pedro Só (1970-1971) and Bárbara (1979-1980). Mention should also be made of the 1971 television series O Povo que Canta.
Known For
A series that brings together ten television films that sketch out as many portraits of our daily lives, fictional stories that touch on various aspects of Portuguese life, experiences marked by destiny.
Fados
After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to find that the woman he loves has married his brother. Overcome by bitterness, he sets off to find work in the countryside where he meets Albertina, a free-spirited young woman who challenges him to change his life.
Change of Life
The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.
Luísa e os Outros
Joe Valente, a luso-american, returns home with the dream of turning molice picking into a real industry. But this will cause misery for those who use the traditional methods.
Bárbara
This documentary shows a typical Sunday in Mozambique's capital, tourist main attractions, an inquest in Lisbon about the perception of the people in the street about what life was like in that African colony (or, as the Government had it then, "province"), and then interviews and scenes of Lourenço Marques fishermen and a bar waitresses. African folk music and dance were used as documents and background for the text narration.
Catembe
Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't find work,resorts to begging, but keeps his mountaineer pride. He starts a new life with a prostitute who is nice to him, but nothing works. He returns home, and alone, and now he finds life there is sad as well.
Just Pedro
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