The Artist and the City
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The Artist and the City (Portuguese: O Pintor e a Cidade) is a 1956
short Portuguese
documentary film directed by Manoel de Oliveira
. The film shows a series of watercolor panting by Portuguese artist António Cruz of what he sees while walking through different parts of the city of Porto
. It was the director Oliveira's first film in color.
1956 in film
The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers * February 5 - First showing of documentary films by...
short Portuguese
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...
documentary film directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...
. The film shows a series of watercolor panting by Portuguese artist António Cruz of what he sees while walking through different parts of the city of Porto
Porto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
. It was the director Oliveira's first film in color.