Country: Portugal
Year: 1978
Duration: 100'


Lobina and Bastião live in the village of Montemor-o-Velho. They are sharecropping farmers and every day have to work dreadfully hard. Their living conditions are miserable. Fifty percent of every animal on their farm belongs to the landowner. They have few moments of relaxation and fun, like butchering the pig (which Bastião bought with his own money) and the ensuing feast. The years pass. Their sons get married, and their only daughter moves to France. Because of their age, Lobina and Bastião can't work the land anymore and their farm is given to others. The landowner assigns an unhealthy and broken-down kitchen to the two old people.

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, screenplay and editor: António Campos.
Plot: da due racconti di A. Passos Coelho.
Director of photography: Acácio de Almeida.
Sound: Alexandre Gonçalves.
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach.
Cast and characters: Glicínia Quartin (Lobina), Carlos Bartolomeu (Bastião), Cremilda Gil (la venditrice), João Lagarto (l'ambulante), Márcia Breia (la donna del macellaio), Júlio Cardoso (l'avvocato).
Producer: José J. Mota. Production company: IPC.
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