He died the father of ‘Kilas’ – Correio da Manhã

Filmmaker held one of the biggest successes of the national cinema

In 1945, coming from Angola. – where was born June 27, 1933 – José Fonseca e Costa arrived Portugal and began to study law. But quickly gained the cinema. It was the seventh art who dedicated his life from the 1960s until his death on Sunday, after 82 years in the Hospital Santa Maria in Lisbon, victim of pneumonia.

It was one of the “most important cinema figures” and did “what they liked until the end,” said Paul White, who was producing the new film from the director, ‘armpits’. “Filmed almost everything and have the elements to finish the film,” said producer.

The beginning of Fonseca e Costa’s career dates back to 1961 when, after being prevented to enter into the ranks of RTP and arrested by the PIDE, he traveled to Italy to train in the movie ‘Eclipse’ by Michelangelo Antonioni. Back in Portugal, at 64, he directed advertising films to make his debut in fiction, at 67, with ‘The Metaphysics of Chocolates’. Since then, it has become one of the Cinema Novo filmmakers, with ‘The Comment’ (1972), ‘The Devils of Alcazarquivir’ (1977) and ‘Kilas, the Bad Tape’, one of the greatest successes of the Portuguese cinema with Mario Viegas. It is also ‘Ballad of Dog Beach’, ‘Five Days, Five Nights’ and ‘Single Widow Rica Not It’.

Director of the Center for Portuguese Cinema and president of Tobis, was director. In 2012 was the victim of a violent attack in Bairro Alto, Lisbon, but recovered quickly. Brother of actress Cucha Carvalheiro, had two children.

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