O Fantasma
“No one can live without love.”
Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he becomes obsessed with the stranger until loneliness and unfulfilled desire propel him finally into a dark and dangerous animalistic state.
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Cast
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Ricardo Meneses
Sérgio
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Beatriz Torcato
Fátima
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Two Drifters
André Barbosa
João
Eurico Vieira
Virgilio
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Joaquim Oliveira
Mário
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Traffic
Florindo Lourenço
Matos
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Rodrigo Garín
Young man in bathroom
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Jorge Almeida
Police 1
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Justice de femme
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Maria Paola Porru
João's mother
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The Jester
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
Luis Zorro
Young man in Sérgio's room
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Salomão
Man with doberman
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João Rui Guerra da Mata
Police 2
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João Pedro Rodrigues Director · Paulo Rebelo Writer Alexandre Melo Writer
Worldwide gross $127K · United States release November 22, 2002 · Produced in Portugal
Box office
Worldwide gross
$126,783
Production
Rosa Filmes
Production
Portugal
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
Release dates
Italy · September 8, 2000
Premiere · Venice Film Festival
Portugal · October 20, 2000
Theatrical
United States · November 22, 2002
Theatrical · New York City, New York
United States
June 2, 2001 · Premiere · Seattle International Film Festival
June 3, 2001 · Premiere · New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
July 13, 2001 · Premiere · Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
October 12, 2001 · Premiere · Reel Affirmations International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Argentina
June 25, 2005 · Premiere · Encuentro Con El Nuevo Cine Portugués
Belgium
October 15, 2001 · Premiere · Flanders International Film Festival
December 4, 2001 · Premiere · Pink Screens, Bruxelles
Colombia
April 20, 2006 · Premiere · Festival De Cine Europeo
Czechia
July 7, 2001 · Premiere · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
France
March 21, 2001 · Theatrical
Greece
November 17, 2000 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
November 5, 2023 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Hungary
October 8, 2001 · Premiere · Titanic International Filmpresence Festival
Iceland
September 19, 2009 · Premiere · Reykjavik International Film Festival
Japan
March 23, 2013 · Premiere · João Pedro Rodrigues Retrospective
Norway
October 19, 2001 · Premiere · Bergen International Film Festival
Slovakia
September 10, 2019 · Premiere · International Film Festival Cinematik
South Africa
March 12, 2004 · Premiere · Johannesburg Pride South Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
South Korea
October 7, 2011 · Premiere · Pusan International Film Festival
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