The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Movie

Drama

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.

Date: 10/01/2020

Rating: 5.2

Cast: Chico Diaz, Victoria Guerra, Catarina Wallenstein, Luís Lima Barreto, Dinarte Branco, João Barbosa, Márcia Breia, Luísa Cruz, Gustavo Vargas, Luís Lucas, Ricardo Aibéo, Marcello Urgeghe, Cláudio da Silva, Pedro Lacerda, Paulo Filipe, Dinis Gomes, Hugo Mestre Amaro, André Gomes, Rui Morisson, Solange Santos, Rafael Fonseca, Hugo Silva, José Martins, Francisco Tavares, Alexandra Rosa, Carolina Serrão, Bruno Ferreira

Chico Diaz