Released:
2020-10-01

Overview:
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.

Director:
João Botelho

Runtime:
2h 9min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Chico Diaz
  as
  Ricardo Reis
• 
  Victoria Guerra
  as
  Marcenda
• 
  Catarina Wallenstein
  as
  Lídia
• 
  Luís Lima Barreto
  as
  Fernando Pessoa
• 
  Dinarte Branco
  as
  Colega Dirigente