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Famalicão (S)

6.4

49

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Original title: Famalicão
Year: 1941
Running time: 24 min.
Country: Portugal
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Screenwriter: Manoel de Oliveira
Cast: Documentary, Self: Vasco Santana
Music: Jaime Silva Filho
Cinematography: António Mendes (B&W)
Producer: Manoel de Oliveira
Genre: Documentary | Short Film
Synopsis: Famalicão is the railway centre in the north of the country, where buttons and clocks are made. The film wanders through the town's picturesque streets, and images of the church and hospital alternate with the grape harvest festivities. The memorial home of the writer Camilo Castelo Branco is also located in the town. In this film the director attempts to understand this nineteenth-century writer. The house is shot as an enclosed universe permeated by an obsession with madness and death. This Romantic novelist played an important role in Oliveira's works, and his book, "Amor de Perdição", was the basis for a film of the same name (1979), and the film "O Dia do Desespero" (1992) takes places entirely within the writer's museum.

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Famalicão (S)

1941

Manoel de Oliveira

6.4

(49)