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Non, ou, A vã glória de mandar No, or the vain glory of command
Title
Non, ou, A vã glória de mandar [videorecording] = No, or the vain glory of command / um filme de Manoel De Oliveira.
Published
Lisbon : Atalanta Filmes, c2001.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Videodisc release of a motion picture made in 1990.
Special features include: interviews with director and actors.
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira ; writing by Manoel de Oliveira ; produced by Paulo Branco ; music by Alejandro Masso ; cinematography by Elso Roque.
In Portuguese with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
Summary
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the local military opposition.
Variant and related titles
No, or the vain glory of command
Vã glória de mandar
Vain glory of command
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Portuguese
Added to Catalog
October 15, 2007
Credits
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira ; writing by Manoel de Oliveira ; produced by Paulo Branco ; music by Alejandro Masso ; cinematography by Elso Roque.
Cast
Luis Miguel Cintra, Diogo Doria, Miguel Guilherme, Luis̕ Lucas, Carlos Gomes, Antonio S. Lopes, Mateus Lorena, Lola Forner, Raul Fraire, Ruy de Carvalho, Teresa Menezes, Leonor Silveira.
System details note
DVD (PAL)
Videorecording number
50083 Atalanta Filmes
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