Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers of the Portuguese language established a gigantic parallel universe creating a series of heteronyms to survive his loneliness of genius. José Saramago, Nobel laureate of literature in 1998, wrote this novel returning the heteronymous Ricardo Reis to Portugal, after 16 years of exile in Brazil.1936 is the year of all danger, Mussolini's fascism, Hitler's Nazism, the terrible Spanish civil war and Salazar's Estado Novo in Portugal.
[2020] Festival Cinelibri [Bulgaria]
[2020] Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo [Brazil]
[2020] Festival de Sevilla | Festival de Cine Europeo [Spain]
[2021] Festival Fixe [Brazil]
[2021] 16ª CineOP – Mostra de Cinema de Ouro Preto [Brazil]
[2021] Prémios Sophia [Portugal]
[2021] European Film Festival [South Africa]
[2021] Efebo d’Oro (Best International Feature Film) [Italy]
[2021] Screening at Biblioteca Municipal Ary dos Santos [Portugal]
[2022] 9ª Semana de Cine Portugués en el MALBA [Argentina]
[2022] 6ª Semana de Cine Portugués en Santiago [Chile]
[2022] Biblioteca Municipal de Torres Vedras [Portugal]
[2022] 6ª Semana de Cine Portugués en Ciudad de México [Mexico]
[2022] 7ª Semana de Cine Portugués en Uruguay [Uruguay]
Fiction
2020, Portugal, 130’
Script: João Botelho
Cinematography: João Ribeiro
Sound: Jorge Saldanha
Editing: João Braz
Production: Alexandre Oliveira / Ar de Filmes
Cast: Chico Diaz, Luís Lima Barreto, Catarina Wallenstein, Victoria Guerra, Hugo Amaro, João Barbosa, Rui Morisson