O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis 2020

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.

Cast:

Chico Diaz
Ricardo Reis 

Victoria Guerra
Marcenda 

Catarina Wallenstein
Lídia 

Luís Lima Barreto
Fernando Pessoa 

Dinarte Branco
Colega Dirigente 

João Barbosa
Victor 

• The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis