The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
2020-10-01 | 129 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Chico DiazRicardo Reis
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Victoria GuerraMarcenda
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Catarina WallensteinLídia
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Luís Lima BarretoFernando Pessoa
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Dinarte BrancoColega Dirigente
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Márcia BreiaVizinha 1
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Luísa CruzVizinha 2
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Gustavo VargasRámon
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Luís LucasVelho 1
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Ricardo AibéoDirigente Sindical
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Marcello UrgegheDoctor
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Cláudio da SilvaPolícia
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Pedro LacerdaOrador
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Paulo FilipeAntónio Lopes Ribeiro
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Dinis GomesMotorista
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Hugo Mestre AmaroGerente Salvador
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André GomesDirector-Adjunto
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Rui MorissonDr. Sampaio
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