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Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a testimony of the profound friendship between the two poets, letters of longing and of desire to “fill years of distance with hours of conversation”. Through excerpts and verses, a dialog is established, revealing their divergent opinions but mostly their strong bond, and their efforts to preserve it until their last breaths.Read moreLess
Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a testimony of the profound friendship between the two poets, letters of longing and of desire to “fill years of distance with hours of conversation”. Through excerpts and verses, a dialog is established, revealing their divergent opinions but mostly their strong bond, and their efforts to preserve it until their last breaths.
The story
Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a testimony of the profound friendship between the two poets, letters of longing and of desire to “fill years of distance with hours of conversation”. Through excerpts and verses, a dialog is established, revealing their divergent opinions but mostly their strong bond, and their efforts to preserve it until their last breaths.
Cast & crew
Eva TruffautCast
Pierre LéonCast
Rita DurãoCast
Anna LeppänenCast
Luís Miguel Cintra
Tânia DinisCast
Mário BarrosoCast
Hugo TouritaCast
Francisco Nascimento
Luna Picoli-TruffautExplore the crew
- Director
- Rita Azevedo Gomes
- Editor
- Patrícia Saramago
- Editor
- Rita Azevedo Gomes
- Writer
- Rita Azevedo Gomes
- Director of Photography
- Acácio de Almeida
- Director of Photography
- Jorge Quintela
- Original Music Composer
- Alexander Zekke
- Producer
- Joana Ferreira
- Producer
- Isabel Machado