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Voyage to the beginning of the world = Viagem ao principío do mundo
Title
Voyage to the beginning of the world = [videorecording] Viagem ao principío do mundo / Madragoa Filmes ... [et al.] ; argumento e dialogos de Manoel de Oliveira ; traducao francesa de Jacques Parsi ; produzido por Paulo Branco ; realização de Manoel de Oliveira.
Published
[Santa Monica, Calif.] : Strand Releasing, c1999.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
Cinematographer, Renato Berta ; editor, Valerie Loiseleux ; music, Emmanuel Nunes.
In French with English subtitles.
Summary
An aging film director, on location in Portugal, takes three actor friends on a driving tour of a mountain village where one of the actors, born in France but of Portuguese descent, is united with an elderly aunt he has never met. The filmmakers speculate on beginnings and endings, what remains of the past and what is lost.
Variant and related titles
Viagem ao principío do mundo
Journey to the beginning of the world
Title on disc and container: Voyage to the beginning of the world
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Credits
Cinematographer, Renato Berta ; editor, Valerie Loiseleux ; music, Emmanuel Nunes.
Performers
Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira, Isabel de Castro, Diogo Dória.
System details note
DVD.
Videorecording number
9833 Strand Releasing
Subjects
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Madragoa Filmes (Firm)
Strand Releasing (Firm)
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