Paulo Soares da Rocha (22 December 1935 – 29 December 2012)[1] was a Portuguese film director. Among his best-known films are A Ilha dos Amores and O Rio do Ouro. A Ilha dos Amores was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival,[2] O Desejado was entered into the main competition at the 44th edition of the Venice Film Festival,[3] and O Rio do Ouro was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Festival.[4]

Filmography as director

• Os Verdes Anos (1963)
• Mudar de Vida (1966)
• Sever do Vouga... Uma Experiência (1971)
• A Pousada das Chagas (1972)
• A Ilha dos Amores (1982)
• O Desejado (1988)
• "Cinéma, de Notre Temps": Oliveira - L'Architecte (1993)
• Portugaru San - O Sr. Portugal em Tokushima (1993)
• Camões - Tanta Guerra, Tanto Engano (1998)
• O Rio do Ouro (1998)
• A Raiz do Coração (2000)
• As Sereias (2001)
• Vanitas (2004)
• Se Eu Fosse Ladrão, Roubava (2011)

References

Bibliographic references

• (in Portuguese) O Cais do Olhar by José de Matos-Cruz, Portuguese Cinematheque, 1999

External links

• Paulo Rocha at IMDb

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