José Leitão de Barros (22 October 1896 – 29 June 1967) was a Portuguese film director and playwright.

José Leitão de Barros
Leitão de Barros
Born	(1896-10-22)22 October 1896 Lisbon, Portugal
Died	29 June 1967(1967-06-29) (aged 70) Lisbon, Portugal
Occupation	Film director, playwright

Among his most famous films are Maria do Mar (1930), the second docufiction after Moana (1926) by Robert Flaherty, the first Portuguese sound film, A Severa (1931), Ala-Arriba! (1945), and a biopic about Portugal's national poet, Camões (1946).

He was born and died in Lisbon.

Filmography

• Mal de Espanha (1918)
• O Homem dos Olhos Tortos (1918) (unfinished)
• Malmequer (1918)
• Sidónio Pais - Proclamação do Presidente da República (1918) (lost)
• Nazaré, Praia de Pescadores (1929) (the second part is lost)
• Festas da Curia (1927)
• Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica (1930)
• Maria do Mar (1930)
• A Severa (1931)
• As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1935)
• Bocage (1936)
• Las Tres Gracias (1936)
• Maria Papoila (1937)
• Legião Portuguesa (1937)
• Mocidade Portuguesa (1937)
• Varanda dos Rouxinóis (1939)
• A Pesca do Atum (1939)
• Ala-Arriba! (1942)
• A Póvoa de Varzim (1942)
• Inês de Castro (1944)
• Camões (1946)
• Vendaval Maravilhoso (1949)
• Comemorações Henriquinas (1960)
• A Ponte da Arrábida Sobre o Rio Douro (1961)
• Escolas de Portugal (1962)
• A Ponte Salazar Sobre o Rio Tejo (1966)[1]

See also

• Docufiction
• Ethnofiction
• Cinema of Portugal
• José de Matos-Cruz - Portuguese film historian

References

External links

• José Leitão de Barros at IMDb

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