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This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married a Chinese woman after he left his wife and family to go live in Macao. Later, he moved to Japan where he fell in love with a Japanese woman, staying in Japan for the rest of his life. Mixed in with the career and loves of Moraes is the history of Portugal at home and in its colonies.Read moreLess
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married a Chinese woman after he left his wife and family to go live in Macao. Later, he moved to Japan where he fell in love with a Japanese woman, staying in Japan for the rest of his life. Mixed in with the career and loves of Moraes is the history of Portugal at home and in its colonies.
The story
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married a Chinese woman after he left his wife and family to go live in Macao. Later, he moved to Japan where he fell in love with a Japanese woman, staying in Japan for the rest of his life. Mixed in with the career and loves of Moraes is the history of Portugal at home and in its colonies.
Cast & crew
Luís Miguel CintraWenceslau de Moraes
Zita DuarteFrancesca
Jorge Silva MeloPainter
Paulo RochaCamilo Pessanha
Yoshiko MitaO-Yoné
Wang LaiChinese motherExplore the crew
- Director
- Paulo Rocha
- Director of Photography
- Acácio de Almeida
- Producer
- Paulo Rocha
- Director of Photography
- Kōzō Okazaki
- Director of Photography
- Elso Roque
- Screenplay
- Paulo Rocha
- Writer
- Wenceslau de Moraes
- Producer
- Etsuko Takano