Manoel de Oliveira was born in Porto, Portugal on December 11, 1908, to Francisco JosĂ© de Oliveira and CĂąndida Ferreira Pinto. His family were wealthy industrialists. Oliveira attended school in Galicia, Spain and his goal as a teenager was to become an actor. He enrolled in Italian film-maker Rino Lupo's acting school at age 20, but later changed his mind when he saw Walther Ruttmann's documentary Berlin: Symphony of a City. This prompted him to direct his first film, also aâŠ
