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A critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century.
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.Read moreLess
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.
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Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.
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Ivo CanelasEça de Queirós
António Pedro CerdeiraRamalho Ortigão
Bruna Di TullioCountess Luísa Valadas
Rogério SamoraCount Jorge Valadas
José Pedro Vasconcelos
Giselle ItiéCarmen Puebla
Flávio GalvãoNicázio Puebla
James Weber BrownRytmel
Nicolau BreynerEduardo Coelho
Carla ChambelCountess (voice)
Vítor CorreiaBatalha Reis
Pedro EfeCocheiroExplore the crew
- Director
- Jorge Paixão da Costa
- Screenplay
- Newton Cannito
- Screenplay
- Jorge Paixão da Costa
- Screenplay
- Nuno Vaz
- Screenplay
- Mário Botequilha
- Screenplay
- Tiago Borralho
- Producer
- António da Cunha Telles
- Editor
- João Braz
- Producer
- Patrick Siaretta
- Writer
- Ramalho Ortigão
- Director of Photography
- Luís Branquinho
- Screenplay
- Luísa Costa Gomes
- Producer
- Pandora da Cunha Telles
- Writer
- Eça de Queirós
- Producer
- Roberto d'Avila