Matar Saudades

Matar Saudades

85 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1988

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...

Matar Saudades

85 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1988

Matar Saudades
Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...
Producers Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC), Opus Filmes
Original title Matar Saudades
Directors Fernando Lopes
Writers Carlos Saboga, Fernando Lopes, António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Cast

Rogério Samora

as Abel

Teresa Madruga

as Teresa

Pedro Efe

as Pedro

Eunice Muñoz

as Grandmother

João Cabral

as Pedro

Manuel Cavaco

as Vasco

Laura Soveral

as Mother

Canto e Castro

as Father

António Reis

as Júlio

Alexandre de Sousa

as Heliodoro

Lurdes Rodrigues

as Linda