Francisco Manso (Director)
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Works
O Meu Nome É...
The daily experiences of many antifascists - who suffered, until the political prison, which sealed his esteem and united them in a covenant of justice against a "pide" assassin (eted). But the April 25 and May 1, to September 28 and March 11, follows the November 25 - striking dates a forthcoming story. Time caused the wear of the revolutionary process, exacerbating social and economic problems. In the intellectual groups of the left, where the ideological coherence flew over the everyday practice, is dug a crisis of identity and options. An early vote, perhaps radical, unites -still - a determined activist and a journalist who wonders ...
Release Date1978-06-01
Charactersd Tomé
Vote Count3
O Último Condenado à Morte
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
Release Date2009-05-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Ilha dos Escravos
After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the liberals, led by his brother D. Pedro. In 1834 D. Miguel left for exile. His supporters don't give up on returning him to the throne. Willing to do anything they even try to use the slaves of the colonies. A mysterious emissary is sent to Cape Verde to prepare an uprising. But other reasons were behind his visit to the archipelago ....
Release Date2008-05-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Terra Nova, Mar Velho
Journey of a cod trawler to Newfoundland waters for cod fishing.
Release Date1983-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
O Cônsul de Bordéus
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal. He defied the direct orders of his government and exhibited courage, moral rectitude, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice by issuing visas to all refugees regardless of nationality, race, religion or political opinions.This narrative film expresses his heroic actions towards humanity, which will perpetuate his legacy of justice for a new generation. In 1966, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He is considered to have achieved the largest single rescue operation of World War II.
Release Date2012-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Our Consul in Havana
The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.
Release Date2019-07-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Napomuceno's Will
Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways
Release Date1997-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Abandonados
Based on real facts, recalls the alliance between Portuguese, Timorese and Australians against a common enemy that did not hesitate to commit the greatest atrocities against the local populations and against all those who opposed him.
Release Date2022-12-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
The Two Brothers
“The Two Brothers” is based on a true story. André, a Cape Verdean migrant in Lisbon, receives a letter from his father telling him that his younger brother João has had an affair with André’s wife and demanding his return to recover the family’s honour. His father and the entire village pressure him into killing his brother, his friend. A story of conflict between current laws and an unwritten, ancient law – that might be more powerful…
Release Date2019-01-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Stone Soup
A old portuguese tail
Release Date1976-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
O Convidado Debaixo da Mesa
Bráulio is a rich man, and the patriarch of the family. At one of the many boring dinner parties his family gives, he meets a guest that preferes to hide under the table.
Release Date1979-01-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Assistant
Our Consul in Havana
Release Date2019-06-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
O Cinema Português
Release Date2003-12-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Argozelo
Release Date1977-11-12
DepartmentEditing
JobAssistant Editor
Assault on the Santa Maria
On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship.
Release Date2010-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Salgueiro Maia - Rumo à Eternidade
On July 1, 2019, Salgueiro Maia, the iconic name of one of the captains of the Carnation Revolution, would be 75 years old. He was born in Castelo de Vide and is buried there, in a shallow grave, as was his wish. This documentary addresses some of the most relevant moments in the life of this courageous and tolerant man, whose contribution to the end of a 41-year dictatorship and to the establishment of a democratic regime in Portugal was decisive.
Release Date2019-07-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Mulheres da Serra de Montemuro
Release Date2010-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Acto dos Feitos da Guiné
A dialogue between History and a Guerrilla Movement, interlaced with live footage taken in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, when this country was the colony of the first.
Release Date1980-04-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count1
Os Filhos da Noite
A man living a regular and not-so-spectacular life, only feels alive at night.
Release Date1979-01-01