Amor de perdiçáo
Portugal,
1978, 260 min
Shown in 1994
CREDITS
- dir
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Manoel de Oliveira
- prod
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Portuguese Film Insitute
- scr
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Manoel de Oliveira
- cam
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Manuel Costa e Silva
- editor
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Solveig Nordlund
- cast
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António Sequeira Lopes, Cristina Hauser, Elsa Wallencamp, António Costa
- source
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Portuguese Film Institute
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COMMENTS
Manoel de Oliveira received the Akira Kurosawa Award in 1994; he appeared in person.
OTHER
Originally a six-part miniseries for Portuguese television, Oliveira's screen adaptation of the enormously popular novel by Camilo Castelo Branco (written in 1861) recounts a Romeo and Juliet story complicated by the love of a servant girl for the hero. The tragic consequences of this period drama unfold within the filmmaker's unique vision; what Oliveira did to theater in Benilde he does to the long, plot-thick 19th-century novel in Doomed Love. This literal transcription is a tour de force that stretches the boundaries of cinematic conventions.
FACTOID #304
After its U.S. premiere at the 1969 Festival, the print of Z by Costa-Gavras was stolen from the locked projection room of the Masonic Auditorium.
