The Day of Despair
Synopsis
The film "The Day of Despair" tells the true story of the last XIX century's remarkable portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco. This evocation is fundamentally based in some of his letters. The texts are, one could say, the conducting thread of the dramatic evolution of a virible, controversial and romantic man, along with his fateful, unstable and obstinated spirit. Camilo submerges without remittance into an intimate, or better interior conflict ; "a personified drama", as Fermando Pessoa would say, since it occurs substancially between him and himself. The writer had been suffering from eye disease and one day he wakes up blind. Tortured sool, as his was, blindness would be the impelling force of the Final Act of his life?... What about Life Beyond the Grave?
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Gemini Films
- Foreign production companies : Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC), Madragoa Filmes, RTP - Radiotelevisao Portuguesa
- French distribution : Pierre Grise Distribution
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Paulo Branco
- Screenwriter : Manoel De Oliveira
- Director of Photography : Mário Barroso
- Assistant directors : José Maria Vaz Da Silva, Francisco Villa-Lobos
- Editors : Manoel De Oliveira, Valérie Loiseleux
- Sound recordists : Gita Cerveira, Dominique Dalmasso
- Costume designer : Jasmin Matos (De)
- Producer : Paulo Branco
- Voice : Canto e Castro, Ruy De Carvalho
- Sound Editor : Jean-Christophe Winding
- Assistant Editor : Pascale Charolais
- Continuity supervisor : Júlia Buisel
- Production Designer : Ze Branco
- Sound mixers : Hans Kunzi, François Musy
- Location Manager : Joao Montalverne
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Portuguese
- Coproducer countries : Portugal, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Portugal, France)
- Production year : 1992
- French release : 07/04/1993
- Runtime : 1 h 15 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 78.028
- Visa issue date : 09/10/1992
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby
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