Movie: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Top 10 Billed Cast

Chico Diaz
Chico Díaz

Ricardo Reis

Victoria Guerra
Victoria Guerra

Marcenda

Catarina Wallenstein
Catarina Wallenstein

Lídia

Luís Lima Barreto
Luís Lima Barreto

Fernando Pessoa

Dinarte Branco
Dinarte Branco

Colega Dirigente

João Barbosa
João Barbosa

Victor

Márcia Breia
Márcia Breia

Vizinha 1

Luísa Cruz
Luísa Cruz

Vizinha 2

Gustavo Vargas
Gustavo Vargas

Rámon

Luís Lucas
Luís Lucas

Velho 1

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    Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.

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    2020-10-01

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