Fonseca e Costa: Cavaco Silva recalls “defender of the ideals of freedom ‘- Digital Journal

 
 The President recalled the director José Fonseca e Costa, now deceased, as a “defender of the ideals of freedom and democracy.”
    
 
 

In his message of condolences he sent to film director family, Anibal Cavaco Silva said that “over several decades, José Fonseca e Costa distinguished himself as one of the most creative and talented Portuguese directors» .

“Works such as ‘Kilas, the Bad Tape’, ‘Five Days, Five Nights” or “Ballad of Dog Beach’ are landmarks of Portuguese cinema of the twentieth century and won rightly the applause from critics and audiences, “continues the letter.

For the head of State, José Fonseca e Costa was a” defender of the ideals of freedom and democracy “, a” opposition to the dictatorship and early if highlighted as one of the greats of the Cinema Novo movement. “

” His works have had great success and earned him even recently, deserved awarding of the Career Award of Film Portuguese Academy, “recalls Cavaco Silva

The director José Fonseca e Costa died today at the Hospital Santa Maria in Lisbon, at 82

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