The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (2020)
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.
- João Botelho
- António Pinhão Botelho
- Pedro Ramalhete
- Tomás Novais Castro
- Paulo Guilherme
- José Saramago
- João Botelho
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Country:
Portugal
Language:
Português
Runtime: 02 hour 09 minutes
Budget: $0
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Plot Keyword: based on novel or book, josé saramago
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