The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
Genres:
Fernando Cabral Martins as Fernando Pessoa
André Gomes as Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Juliet Berto as Helena
Jorge Silva Melo as Narrator / Fausto
Manoel de Oliveira as Padre
Isabel Ruth as
João Perry as
Francisco Pinhão Botelho as Baby (uncredited)
Leonor Pinhão as Confissão de Lúcio: Marta
Isabel de Castro as Marinheiro: 2.º Veladora
Zita Duarte as Marinheiro: 1.º Veladora
António Barahona as Leitores: Pessoa ortónimo (voice)
Joaquim Furtado as Leitores: Álvaro de Campos (voice)
Elsa Wallencamp as Freira
Osório Mateus as Leitura de Poemas de Sá-Carneiro
Nuno Vieira de Almeida as Pianisa
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