Voyage to the Beginning of the World ( Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo ) ( Voyage au début du monde )

Voyage to the Beginning of the World (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo
Alternate Title: Voyage au début du monde
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Portugal ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Manoel de Oliveira

Written By:
Manoel de Oliveira
Jacques Parsi

Actors:
Marcello Mastroianni ..... Manoel
Jean-Yves Gautier ..... Afonso
Leonor Silveira ..... Judite
Diogo Dória ..... Duarte
Isabel de Castro ..... Maria Afonso
Cécile Sanz de Alba ..... Christina
José Pinto ..... José Afonso
Adelaide Teixeira ..... Senhora
Isabel Ruth ..... Olga
Manoel de Oliveira ..... Driver
José Maria Vaz da Silva ..... Assistente
Fernando Bento ..... Homem 1
Mário Moutinho ..... Homem 2
Jorge Mota ..... Homem 3
Sara Alves ..... Menina

Synopsis:

Octogenarian film director Manoel de Oliveira travels autobiographical avenues in this portrait of a film director Manoel (Marcello Mastroianni) who is shooting on location in Portugal. During a break, one of the film's actors, Afonso, born in France but of Portuguese descent, travels to his father's birthplace, accompanied by the director and two other actors. The journey takes them to Alto Minho in the north of Portugal, where they look back on rural Portugal and the memories of a lifetime. This was Mastroianni's last film. The film is loosely based on the experiences of French actor Yves Afonso while shooting a film in Portugal in 1987.

Manoel is aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 10 January, 2012.

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