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José Leitão de Barros

Portuguese film director and playwright (1896–1967)

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José Júlio Marques 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.

O Homem dos Olhos Tortos (1918) (unfinished)

Sidónio Pais - Proclamação do Presidente da República (1918) (lost)

Nazaré, Praia de Pescadores (1929) (the second part is lost)

Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica (1930)

As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1935)

Comemorações Henriquinas (1960)

A Ponte da Arrábida Sobre o Rio Douro (1961)

A Ponte Salazar Sobre o Rio Tejo (1966)

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