Jose Julio Marques Leitao De Barros

Plaats: Lisbon

Geboren: 1896

Dood: 1967

Biografie:

José Leitão de Barros (22 October 1896 – 29 June 1967) was a Portuguese film director and 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. José Leitão de Barros was a professor, cineasta, jornalista, dramaturgo and until painter, field in which he distinguished himself from his generation by the aesthetic sense of their works and for anticipating, without theoretical bases, all a cinematographic movement that dedicated itself to the practice of visual anthropology.