Paulo Rocha

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the ...

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him… himself, 30 years younger.

Freely based on Gide (‘Paludes’) and Hawthorne (‘Wakefield’), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and ...

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center’s music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother ...

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner’s biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and ...

This film, made as a “twin” of A ilha dos amores, was planned as a poetic documentary on the enigmatic life of Wenceslau de Moraes ...

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer ...