Belarmino | |
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Directed by | Fernando Lopes |
Produced by | António da Cunha Telles |
Starring | Belarmino Fragoso Albano Martins Baptista-Bastos |
Cinematography | Augusto Cabrita |
Music by | Manuel Ruas Jean-Pierre Gebler |
Distributed by | Produções Cunha Telles |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | Portugal |
Language | Portuguese |
Belarmino is a 1964 Portuguese docufiction. It charts the life and times of ex-boxer Belarmino Fragoso. It is one of the first films of the Portuguese Cinema Novo, itself part of a wave of New Cinemas sweeping the world in the 1960s, and a break from the previous tradition of Portuguese cinema exemplified by the comédia à portuguesa. Lopes's film was shown at the festivals of Pesaro and Salso-Poretta in Italy, garnered favourable reviews throughout Europe and won the Prémio da Casa da Imprensa back in Portugal.