The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

10/01/2020

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2hrs 9min

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Drama

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Chico Diaz
  • Victoria Guerra
  • Catarina Wallenstein
  • Luís Lima Barreto
  • Dinarte Branco

    Directors

  • João Botelho
  • António Pinhão Botelho
  • Paulo Guilherme
  • Tomás Novais Castro

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Ar de Filmes

    Production Countries

  • Portugal

LANGUAGES

  • Portuguese