12° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
European Perspectives 19994 - Portugal
TREMONHA DE CRISTAL
Country: Portugal
Year: 1993
Duration: 30'
An old saltworker named Abilio lives with his wife and daughter on one of the many isles that dot the estuary. Not too long before, Abilio had provoked Armando, his grandson, harassing him to the point that Armando had upped and left... But cut off from the world, the old man began to miss the presence of someone he had been close to. Against his family's pleadings, Abilio sends Armando a telegram that announced his death. The ploy succeeds: Armando returns home in the company of a girlfriend and is taken in by the gloomy atmosphere cleverly prepared by his mother and grandmother, who have since come around to Abilio's cause. Armando arrives too late: the funeral has already taken place; or so at least his mother pretends...
Biography
film director
António Campos
Born in Leiria in 1922, Antonio Campos is best known for his documentary features, which since the seventies have established him as one of the most perspicacious social observer in Portugal. After studying painting in Porto, he returned to Leiria to make is first film, Um Tesouro (1958), a fiction short. He continued working in short films until 1971, when he moved into documentary feature with the magnificent Vilarinho das Furnas. Setting out to describe the transformations of the Portuguese countryside, Campos began developping a fascinating body of anthropological film work. In 1991 he directed his first fiction feature, Terra fria, based on a novel by Ferreira de Castro.
FILMOGRAFIA
Um tesouro (cm, 1958), A Almadraba Atuneira (1961), Chagall (1966), Colagem (1967), Vilarinho das Furnas (1971), Falamos de Rio Onor (1974), Gente de Prai de Vieira (1975), Histórias Selvagens (1978), Terra fria (1991), A tremonha de cristal (1993).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: António Campos.
Director of photography: Edgar Pêra.
Editor: Claudio Martinez.
Sound: Rui Henriques.
Cast: Rita Loureiro, Manuel Wiborg, Laura Soverai, José Pinto, Maria Natália, Mara Campos, Pedro da Naia.
Producer: Joaquim Pinto.
Production company: GER, LDA, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, RTC, av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 17 2°, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal, tel. +35113528835, fax +3511-3557076.
Foreign sales agent: Mallan Film GmbH, Tiroler Str., 31, 6000 Frankfurt am Main 70, Germany, tel. +4969638038; Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, RTC, av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 17 2°, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal, tel. +35113528835, fax +35113557076.
Director of photography: Edgar Pêra.
Editor: Claudio Martinez.
Sound: Rui Henriques.
Cast: Rita Loureiro, Manuel Wiborg, Laura Soverai, José Pinto, Maria Natália, Mara Campos, Pedro da Naia.
Producer: Joaquim Pinto.
Production company: GER, LDA, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, RTC, av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 17 2°, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal, tel. +35113528835, fax +3511-3557076.
Foreign sales agent: Mallan Film GmbH, Tiroler Str., 31, 6000 Frankfurt am Main 70, Germany, tel. +4969638038; Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, RTC, av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 17 2°, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal, tel. +35113528835, fax +35113557076.