Portuguese Rhapsody
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Portuguese Rhapsody is a 1959 Portuguese
documentary film
directed by João Mendes
. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival
.
Cinema of Portugal
Portuguese cinema has a long tradition, reaching back to the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. In the 1950s, Cinema Novo, sprang up as a movement concerned with showing realism in film, in the vein of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave...
documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by João Mendes
João Mendes
João Mendes was a Portuguese film director. He directed 33 films between 1944 and 1982.-Selected filmography:* Portuguese Rhapsody - Entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...
. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival
1959 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Marcel Achard *Antoni Bohdziewicz *Michael Cacoyannis *Carlos Cuenca *Pierre Daninos *Julien Duvivier *Max Favalelli *Gene Kelly *Carlo Ponti *Micheline Presle...
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