Mário Gonçalves, a high school teacher threatened with death due to cancer, spends the last days of his life in the village where he was born, in the heart of Serra da Estrela. There, he expresses his talent as a painter in the intimate decoration of an abandoned chapel. This is also the twilight hour of rebellious memories: love and precariousness, choices and contingency, perennial dissatisfaction...
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Ruy de Carvalho
Mário Gonçalves
Known for
Turn of the Tide
Ana Zanatti
Guida
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Rebelo
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Paula
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Rui Luís
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Maria Olguim
D. Ana
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João de Carvalho
Priest
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Chiquititas
A Minha Família é Uma Animação
Maria Schultz
Mário's mother
Also in
The Crime of Aldeia Velha
Nazaré
Eduardo Colombo
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Aldeia da Roupa Branca
O Crime de Simão Bolandas
David Silva
Félix
Known for
El Topo
Alucarda
Manuel Guimarães Director · Vergílio Ferreira Author Abel Escoto Cinematographer
First release November 23, 1975 · Produced in Portugal
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Portugal
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Portuguese
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Portuguese
Release dates
Portugal · November 23, 1975
Premiere · Teatro Rosa Damasceno - V Festival de Cinema de Santarém
No release date listed for United States.
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