Maria João Pires
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Portuguese-Swiss classical pianist
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
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Volta ao Mundo, Kamará
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Original Language: pt
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Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
Overview: Documentary about the life, convictions and career of Portugal's first and only female Prime Minister. Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo believed that "women can be a force for radical transformation of the institutionalised irrationality in which we live. The multifunctionality of their existence, the diversity of the planes on which they move, their daily lives give them a special capacity to find a new understanding and a new effectiveness for governance in the midst of complexity". Unlike many other women who have the same conviction, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo turned her life into a praxis of her own belief.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-13
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Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera
Overview: Attrazione d'Amore is a touching illustration of the unique relation that has developed between the Conductor Riccardo Chailly and his famous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Voyage to Cythera navigates through wonderful musical quotes made of performances conducted by Berio, rehearsals, archival documents and interviews featuring Riccardo Chailly and Louis Andriessen.
Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Letter
Overview: A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-22
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The Divine Comedy
Overview: In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 'Scottish'
Overview: Inspired by his travels to the British Isles and full of the influence of the rolling Scottish landscape, both Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’ and his Overture: The Hebrides are amongst the composer’s most popular and admired works. The London Symphony Orchestra present us with inspiring performances of these works, as well as a performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, featuring the celebrated pianist, Maria João Pires.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-01
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Europakonzert 2003 from Lisbon
Overview: Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 Bela Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Claude Debussy: Fêtes
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-06-04
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Youri Egorov 1954 - 1988
Overview: 'In 1980, the VPRO asked me to make a short film about the Russian pianist Youri Egorov. It was allowed to last ten minutes and was broadcast in the then Extra section. We were 25, both born in May 1954. It was my second short film, and I was very nervous. Youri didn't like cameras and even less interviews. But he agreed, "because you were even shyer than he was," his friend Jan Brouwer told me later. In the years that followed, we would meet up sometimes, and on one such occasion, during the last concert of Vladimir Horowitz, I promised him that later, when we would both be 50, I would make 'a real' film about a long and interesting life. Youri smiled politely. When he died in 1988, I said goodbye to him at his home, and Jan Brouwer reminded me of my promise. So I made it after all, a film about a short and intense life.' - Eline Flipse
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Maria João Pires: Portrait of a Pianist
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-11-27
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