José Saramago

José Saramago

Nacimiento : 1922-11-16, Azinhaga, Santarém, Portugal

Muerte : 2010-06-18

Historia

José de Sousa Saramago was a Portugese author and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor.

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José Saramago

Películas

Last Sunday
Novel
The dawn is strange, with a harbinger of change. The next morning, Maria receives a mysterious visitor that leaves José disturbed and will lead her to re-signify her own destiny.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Novel
Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.
Ensaios Intermitentes
Writer
El Quijote desde la platea
Himself - Writer (archive footage)
Cómo don Quijote de la Mancha, el inmortal personaje creado por Miguel de Cervantes en 1605, ha sido representado en el cine, la televisión, los dibujos animados, el teatro, la ópera, el ballet y otras disciplinas artísticas. Una aventura que comenzó hace más de cuatrocientos años en las páginas de un libro y está lejos de llegar a su fin…
Enemy
Novel
Adam (Gyllenhaal) es un afable profesor de historia que lleva una vida bastante monótona. Un día, viendo una película, descubre a un actor que es idéntico a él. Obsesionado con la idea de tener un doble, la búsqueda de ese hombre tendrá para él consecuencias inesperadas... Libre adaptación de la novela "El hombre duplicado", de José Saramago.
José Saramago: Memorial do Convento
Himself
Documentary about the life and work of the writer José Saramago, with particular emphasis on the historical context and the importance of his novel "Memorial do Convento", based on archival images and testimonies by several personalities.
Embargo
Novel
Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to his car, finding his life suddenly embargoed.
José & Pilar
Self
A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for completing his masterpiece "The Elephant's Journey", and how their love quietly sustains them throughout.
A ciegas
Novel
Una misteriosa epidemia de ceguera se propaga en todo un país. Las primeras víctimas son recluidas en un hospital sin recibir explicaciones. Entre ellas está una mujer que conserva la vista, pero lo mantiene en secreto para poder acompañar a su marido, que se ha quedado ciego. Dentro del hospital se impone la ley del más fuerte, lo que dará lugar a todo tipo de atrocidades. Mientras tanto, el caos y el terror dominan las calles. Adaptación de la novela "Ensayo sobre la ceguera", del Premio Nobel portugués José Saramago.
José Saramago: Raised from the Ground
Himself
José Saramago, the Portuguese writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of the greatest references in Portuguese literature. In this documentary, with the title of one of his most emblematic works, we are taken to cover part of his life.
Azinhaga
A Meeting with Milton Santos
The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the importance of respecting difference and his belief that an alternative globalisation model could wholly enfranchise all citizens of the world. An illustrious presence in 20th century social sciences, the man dubbed as ‘geography’s philosopher’ eloquently elucidates a developing world perspective on the global age.
Santa María de Iquique, cien años después
Himself
A young writer moves to a new town on 21 December 2007. Among the moving boxes is a disc containing his father's legacy. One of these disks is the Cantata Santa Maria de Iquique Luis Advis Quilapayun interpreted by the group. The Cantata heard as a group of different personalities from the world of culture are telling us, tell us, "what history will not remember" their experiences, their impressions.
La Flor Más Grande del Mundo
Narrator
Reflections on childhood, individualism and existentialism in the form of visual poetry.
La Flor Más Grande del Mundo
Novel
Reflections on childhood, individualism and existentialism in the form of visual poetry.
Palabras Verdaderas
Self
The documentary looks in the life and work of Mario Benedetti, especially in his poetic work, the keys to an illustrious Montevideo. A man who has had to live several exiles and has received all the awards that this world can give. But above all, the affection of an unconditional, massive and faithful audience that follows him everywhere and pampers him every day with their applause and reading. A sad childhood, a youth full of work and reading, and a maturity full of commitments marked Benedetti. His work testifies the history, that which only artists can tell.
Língua - Vidas em Português
Documentary about the Portuguese language, and people who speak it around the world.
La balsa de piedra
Novel
Como consecuencia de un cataclismo que ningún sismógrafo ha podido registrar, se abre una brecha entre la frontera de España y Francia y la Península Ibérica va flotando a la deriva en el Océano Atlántico. Ahora es una verdadera balsa de piedra. El impacto en la escena geopolítica es inmenso cuando los poderes Norteamericanos ven la posibilidad de adquirir la nueva extensión de tierra con sus pobladores que se ha desprendido de Europa. Solo el Peñón de Gibraltar permanece en su lugar. Los españoles y portugueses sacados abruptamente de su rutina diaria, abandonan sus casas para escapar de los amenazadores peligros de la costa y van incesantemente vagabundeando por los caminos del interior. Y todavía se desorientan mas cuando la balsa empieza a girar sobre su eje de tal modo que el sol amanece por lo que era el Oeste. (FILMAFFINITY)
Janela da Alma
Self
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link the interviews, which vary from deep to funny to poetic.
Saramago: Documentos
Himself
About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he analyzes his work and shares his reflection on some aspects of his personal life.
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