Lucinda Loureiro
출생 : 1958-01-19, Viseu, Portugal
미제사건을 해결하는 유능한 경관인 에르메스는 마약과의 전쟁이 시작되자 직업에서의 모순을 느끼게 된다. 하루에도 여러번 길거리에서 처단된 소위 “마약 범죄자”의 시신을 목도하며 스트레스성 피부염에 시달린다. 게다가 자주 집을 비운 사이 바람을 피게 된 아내와 자신의 동료 경찰을 폭행하기에 이른다. 또다른 남자 프리모는 복역중 뒷배를 봐주는 윗선에 의해 조기출소한다. 조울증과 분노조절장애를 겪는 그는 자신만의 방식으로 과거를 청산하고자 하지만, 가장 자유를 만끽하는 순간에도 통제불능에 빠진다.
La gardienne de prison
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?
Mãe de Pankas
Messias, the husband, a dentist, almost magician. Felizbela, the beautiful wife, almost happy. Joana, the daughter, almost a singer, and Nuts, her boyfriend, almost a filmmaker. Finally the grand father Tobias, a shepherd, almost immortal.
Marketing Director
A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
After having been in jail, Manuel becomes a bullfighter following dangerously his father's steps.
Neighbor
Early morning and everybody leaves home to work. Jeremias, the gardener, hears the telephone ringing in the house. The front neighbour has a message. Conceição, the maid, called: she won’t be able to come today, Jeremias has to make lunch for Boris. Water falls from the window. the washing machine is not working properly. Boris arrives from school. Jeremias doesn’t have the key
Prisoner 2
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.
Luísa
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.
Custódia
In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.
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천재음악가 토스카니니는 라스칼라좌에서 공연할 날은 꿈꾸며 음악적 정열을 불태운다. 그러던 어느 날 첼로 독주회를 위한 오디션의 일환으로 극장이 사진의 오찬에서 연주할 기회를 얻는다. 그러나 오찬장의 예의를 모르는 분위기에 화가 난 그는 연주 도중 퇴장해 버린다.오디션이 무산되자 유명한 흥행 기획자인 로시(존 라이스-데이비스 분)가 남미 순회공연에 참가할 것을 권유한다. 이 공연은 유명한 가수이자 황제의 애인 나디아(엘리자베스 테일러 분)를 합류시킬 계획이다. 브라질로 가는 배에서 토스카니니는 마르게리타라는 수녀 견습생에게 사랑을 느끼고 노예를 위해 봉사하는 그녀에게 감동한다. 나디아의 호화로운 집에서 황제를 만난 그는 노예제도에 대한 신랄한 비판으로 황제를 일깨운다. 한편 개막식은 다가오는데 지휘자가 단원과의 불화로 떠나 버리자 연주곡인 베르디의 아이다를 외우고 있는 토스카니니가 지휘를 시작한다. 야유하던 관중은 그의 훌륭한 연주에 빠져들고, 나디아가 공연 도중 자신의 노예를 해방시키겠다는 폭탄선언으로 모든 사람을 놀라게 한다.
An approach to the life and work of Jorge de Sena, relying on the testimonies of Mécia de Sena (author of the texts she reads) and the insertion of brief segments of fiction from texts (poems, fiction and theatre) by the writer.