Killing the Saudades
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Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...
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Cast
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Rogério Samora
Abel
Known for
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
April Captains
Teresa Madruga
Teresa
Known for
Tabu
Imagine
Fernando Lopes
Also in
98 Octanas
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
Fernando Matos Silva
Alexandre Gonçalves
Pedro Efe
Pedro
Known for
Pereira Declares
José Luís Vasconcelos
Margarida Miranda
Eunice Muñoz
Grandmother
Also in
Olhos de Água
O Teu Olhar
António-Pedro Vasconcelos
Also in
Cats Don't Have Vertigo
Jaime
João Cabral
Pedro
Known for
Turn of the Tide
Manuel Cavaco
Vasco
Also in
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
Sunset
Fernando Lopes Director · António-Pedro Vasconcelos Writer Carlos Saboga Writer
First release January 1, 1988 · Produced in Portugal · Production Opus Filmes, Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC)
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Production
Opus Filmes
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Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC)
Production
Portugal
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Original title
Matar Saudades
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
Release dates
Portugal · January 1, 1988
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No release date listed for United States.
Netherlands
August 16, 1991
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