Director : Manoel de Oliveira
Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Doria
Feature film, Fiction , Psychological drama
Production language : Portuguese
Nationality : Minority French (Portugal)
French release : 6/4/97
Runtime : 1h 33mn
Current status : Released
Co-production : Gemini Films
French distribution : Les Films du Losange
Film export/Foreign Sales : Gemini Films

A Portuguese film director hires a French actor. The film is a Franco-Portuguese co-production. The French actor's father was originally Portuguese, although his mother was French. His father died very young and, during the shoot, he starts thinking about his dead father. He decides to visit his father's village, hoping to meet a surviving aunt .

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