Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.
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Cast
- Chico DiazRicardo Reis
- Victoria GuerraMarcenda
- Catarina WallensteinLídia
- Luís Lima BarretoFernando Pessoa
- Dinarte BrancoColega Dirigente
- João BarbosaVictor
- Márcia BreiaVizinha 1
- Luísa CruzVizinha 2
- Gustavo VargasRámon
- Luís LucasVelho 1
Crew
- João BotelhoDirector
- João BotelhoScreenplay
- José SaramagoNovel
- João RibeiroDirector of Photography
- João BrazEditor
- Alexandre OliveiraProducer
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