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Killing the Saudades

Killing the Saudades

6.0 Rating
85 min 1988

Overview

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...

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Status

Released

Budget

Unknown

Revenue

Unknown

Original Language

PT

Production Companies

Fundação Calouste GulbenkianOpus FilmesInstituto Português de Cinema (IPC)

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