A child prodigy, a talented pianist, who fears the gift he was born with. A father persecuted and tormented by the infernal memory of the colonial war and a luminous mother afflicted by an incurable disease. A grandfather and grandmother in exile on a small village and an anti-Salazarist, an unrepentant traveller who settles in Buenos Aires. A music teacher who teaches his students that being a musician is not a fate of guaranteed happiness and that there is a lot of pain in the human heart. The story of a Portuguese family that lived through dictatorship, colonial war and democratic revolution - the improbable and surprising threads with which individual destinies weave the collective destiny.
Acting
Rita Durão carries decades of unspoken history in every glance.
Direction
Rocha lets silences scream louder than any dialogue could.
Director
Luís Filipe Rocha
Rita Durão
Paula
Nuno Nunes
António
Adriano Luz
Leandro
Vicente Wallenstein
Duarte (20 anos)
Pompeu José
Augusto
Teresa Madruga
Laura
Cláudio da Silva
Médico
Dinarte Branco
Inspector Artur Monteiro
Carlos Sebastião
Padre Alberto
Alfredo Brito
Adolfo
João Maria Pinto
Larau
Joaquim Nicolau
Boca Linda
Maria d'Aires
Ressurreição
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
João Ricardo Pedro's novel sparked debate in Portugal about how literary estates weaponize posthumous control over women's lives.
Rocha cast Teresa Madruga after seeing her in a single silent scene in Tabu (2012)—her ability to convey entire marriages without speaking was essential for Laura.
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