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The Day of Despair

O Dia Do Desespero
Direction
MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA
Screenplay
Manoel de Oliveira
Cinematography
Mário Barroso
Cast
Teresa Madruga, Mário Barroso, Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Nuno de Melo
Producer
Paulo Branco
Edition(s)
29ª

The Day of Despair

O Dia Do Desespero
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  • 75 minutos
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  • color, 35mm
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  • 1992
Portugal

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A reconstituting of the last days of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco (1826-1890) who, together with Eça de Queiroz, was a great novelist of manners. Based on some of his letters, the film conveys the image of a virile, controversial, romantic man. The writer had difficulties with his eyesight and, one day, woke up blind. To director Manoel de Oliveira, blindness was to become the prevailing force at the end of the author?s life, marked by lack of money, madness for one of his children, a marriage without love, in a state of decadence that eventually led him to suicide. As in the short film, Famalicão, also inspired on the writer, for a setting, the film maker uses Castelo Branco?s house in the city of São Miguel de Seide. Shown at the 16th Mostra.

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MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA
MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA

Born in Porto, Portugal, in 1908. Before being a director, he was race driver and athlete. Made his first short silent film, Douro, Faina Fluvial, in 1931. In the 1940’s, he became a winemaker. He returned to cinema in the 1970’s with authorial films that made him one of the most unique directors in history. Oliveira had all of his movies since Ill-Fated Love (1978, 3rd Mostra) presented at the São Paulo Film Festival. He gained a complete retrospective of his work at the 15th Mostra and at the 29th Mostra, respectively in 1991 and 2005. He won Mostra’s Special Festival Award with The Cannibals (1988, 12nd Mostra), the Critics Prize for Abraham’s Valley (1993, 17th Mostra) and I’m Going Home (2001, 25th Mostra), and the Humanity Award for the ensemble of his work (2004, 28th Mostra). He also directed titles such as Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (2009, 33rd Mostra), The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, 34th Mostra), the segment From Visible to Invisible, part of the film Invisible World (2011, 35th Mostra), produced by Mostra, Gebo and the Shadow (2012, 36th Mostra) and The Old Man of Belem (2014, 38th Mostra). Died in 2015 at the age of 106.
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