Released:
1986-09-25

Overview:
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.

Director:
Manoel de Oliveira

Runtime:
1h 31min

Genre:
Drama, Fantasy

• Cast:
• 
  Bulle Ogier
  as
  Actrice n° 1
• 
  Axel Bogousslavsky
  as
  L'Employé
• 
  Luís Miguel Cintra
  as
  L'Intrus
• 
  Fred Personne
  as
  L'Auteur
• 
  Wladimir Ivanovsky
  as
  Le spectateur