Alfredo Tropa

Biography

Alfredo Ricardo Rezende Tropa (Porto, March 29, 1939 - Lisbon, July 5, 2020) was a Portuguese film director. He was director of RTP's Archives and Documentation. In 1958, he left for Coimbra to attend the Faculty of Sciences and became interested in cinema through the film club movement.

In 1960, in the same city, he began making short films.

He went to Paris the following year, where, on a scholarship from the National Cinema Fund, he attended IDHEC and graduated in Directing.

After an internship in French television, he returned to Portugal and founded Média Filmes with other filmmakers. He was assistant director on a number of films, such as Mudar de Vida, by Paulo Rocha, and Uma Abel...