Gestures and Fragments

Gestures and Fragments

90 mins | Documentary | Feb. 22, 1983

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.

Gestures and Fragments

90 mins | Documentary | Feb. 22, 1983

Gestures and Fragments
"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.
Producers Grupo Zero
Original title Gestos e Fragmentos
Directors Alberto Seixas Santos
Writers Nuno Júdice, Eduardo Lourenço, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Alberto Seixas Santos, Robert Kramer

Cast

Robert Kramer

as American journalist

Eduardo Lourenço

as Himself

Joaquim Furtado

as Narrator (voice)

Erika Kramer

as Erica Asher (woman who wrote a letter)

Jorge Silva Melo

as American journalist (voice)

Zita Duarte

as Woman on a river boat (voice)

Luís Miguel Cintra

as Armando (voice)