Amália (film)
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Amália is a 2008 Portuguese
biographical film
directed by Carlos Coelho da Silva and starring Sandra Barata, Carla Chambel and José Fidalgo
. Barata portrays legendary Portuguese fado
singer Amália Rodrigues
; songs used in the film are recordings of Amália. The film has been criticised by some members of her family.
Cinema of Portugal
Portuguese cinema has a long tradition, reaching back to the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. In the 1950s, Cinema Novo, sprang up as a movement concerned with showing realism in film, in the vein of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave...
biographical film
Biographical film
A biographical film, or biopic , is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their...
directed by Carlos Coelho da Silva and starring Sandra Barata, Carla Chambel and José Fidalgo
José Fidalgo
José Manuel Fidalgo Soares is a Portuguese model and actor.- Career :Fidalgo's career begun when he was a child acting in theater and television commercials....
. Barata portrays legendary Portuguese fado
Fado
Fado is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar, Rui Vieira Nery, states that "the only reliable information on the history of Fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best...
singer Amália Rodrigues
Amália Rodrigues
Amália da Piedade Rodrigues, GCSE, GCIH, , also known as Amália Rodrigues was a Portuguese singer and actress.She was known as the "Rainha do Fado" and was most influential in popularizing the fado worldwide. She was one of the most important figures in the genre's development, and enjoyed a...
; songs used in the film are recordings of Amália. The film has been criticised by some members of her family.