The Year of the Death of Ricardo ReisMovie
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.
About The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is a 2020 drama movie directed by João Botelho.
The production information lists a runtime of 2h 9m, production credits from Portugal, an original language code of PT.
The credited cast includes Chico Diaz, Victoria Guerra, Catarina Wallenstein, Luís Lima Barreto. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
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