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Douro, Faina Fluvial | Labour on the River Douro (PT 1931)
In 1931, a young Portuguese filmmaker named Manoel de Oliveira made his first completed film: a cinematic portrait of the River Douro, lifeblood of his hometown of Porto. De Oliveira was working in direct conversation with the briefly flourishing genre … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema of 1931, cinema of Portugal, city symphonies, Manoel de Oliveira
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