Writing
Fernando Pessoa
Born — Died
1888-06-13 — 1935-11-30
Place of birth
Lisbon, Portugal
Known for
Writing
Credits
9 titles
Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French. Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under his own name, for he dreamed up approximately seventy-five others. He did not call them pseudonyms because he felt that did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead called them heteronyms. These imaginary figures sometimes held unpopular or extreme views.
Known for
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O Marinheiro
1970
NRSão José Correia recites the watershed futuristic poem Tabacaria from Álvaro de Campos.
Tobacco Shop
2025
NRDeparting from extracts written by Fernando Pessoa, the characters walk through the city of Lisbon, having the streets and houses where the Poet lived as the background.
How Many Times Have You Dreamt About Me?
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Continuum
1994
5.5A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon Revisited shows alternative ways of looking at and hearing the city. Celebrating its greatest phantom and confronting his ambiguous and pervasive sexuality, the film is spoken in the three languages in which Pessoa wrote, Portuguese, English and French.
Lisbon Revisited
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Meus Desassossegos
2024
Behind the camera
No synopsis available yet.
O Marinheiro
1970
NRSão José Correia recites the watershed futuristic poem Tabacaria from Álvaro de Campos.
Tobacco Shop
2025
NRDeparting from extracts written by Fernando Pessoa, the characters walk through the city of Lisbon, having the streets and houses where the Poet lived as the background.
How Many Times Have You Dreamt About Me?
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Continuum
1994
5.5A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon Revisited shows alternative ways of looking at and hearing the city. Celebrating its greatest phantom and confronting his ambiguous and pervasive sexuality, the film is spoken in the three languages in which Pessoa wrote, Portuguese, English and French.
Lisbon Revisited
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Meus Desassossegos
2024
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A metafísica dos chocolates
1967
Part of the medium-length films for TV Lisboa Sociedade Anónima, O Banqueiro Anarquista is a fine example of what a fabulous script (by Pessoa), exuberant set design, attentive camera work, and an actor (Santos Manuel) at his most daring and accomplished can achieve. The result is a cynically entertaining film, markedly representative of the First Republic, where for almost an hour the viewer is delighted (and unsettled, of course) by the fallacies of a script to which Santos Manuel gives the weight of a body and a voice, that is, he brings it to life. The Anarchist Banker is a brilliant satire on political discourse, of unfailing intelligence and ferocity.
O Banqueiro Anarquista
1981
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Au bord du monde - Fernando Pessoa
1992