This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger, and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.
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Luís Miguel Cintra as Viscount d'Aveleda
Leonor Silveira as Margarida
Diogo Dória as Don João
Oliveira Lopes as The Presenter (lago)
Pedro T. da Silva as Niccolo
Joel Costa as Urbano Solar
Rogério Samora as Peralta
Rogério Vieira as The Magistrate
António Loja Neves as The Baron
Luís Madureira as
Teresa Côrte-Real as
José Manuel Mendes as
Cândido Ferreira as
Glória de Matos as Glória Matos
Sofia Alves as Convidada do Conde
Filomena Amaro as Margarida (singing voice)
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