The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.

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Cast

Chico Diaz

Ricardo Reis

Victoria Guerra

Marcenda

Catarina Wallenstein

Lídia

Luís Lima Barreto

Fernando Pessoa

Dinarte Branco

Colega Dirigente

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João Barbosa

Victor

Márcia Breia

Vizinha 1

Luísa Cruz

Vizinha 2

Gustavo Vargas

Rámon

Luís Lucas

Velho 1

Ricardo Aibéo

Dirigente Sindical

Marcello Urgeghe

Doctor

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