Country: India
Year: 1999
Duration: 94'
Estrela d'África, a mixed-blood neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. A newborn baby survives various deaths. Tina, his mother, picks him up and opens the gas valve. Saved by his father, the baby sleeps on the city streets, fed by milk which passers-by give him. Twice he is almost sold, out of desperation, for the sake of love, almost for nothing. But Tina can't forget. With the help of the neighborhood's women, she prepares her revenge.
Biography
film director
Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa (Lisbon, Portugal, 1959) abandoned his history studies to follow an editing course held by António Reis at the film school of the Conservatório Nacional. In 1989 he made his first feature film, O Sangue, screened at International Film Critics Week at Venice, followed by Casa de Lava. His film Ossos won the Osella d’oro at the Venice Film Festival in 1997 and in 2000 No Quarto da Vanda received the Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2001 he made the documentary Où gît votre sourire enfoui? and in the following years his films Juventude em Marcha and Ne change rien participated at Cannes and were also presented at the Torino Film Festival. Vitalina Varela received the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cartas a Júlia (cm, 1987), É Tudo Invenção Nossa (cm, 1984), O Sangue (1989), Casa de Lava (1994), Ossos (1997), No Quarto da Vanda (2000), Danièle Huillet et Jean-Marie Straub cinéastes (doc., tv, 2001), Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (doc., 2001), 6 bagatelas (cm, 2003), Juventude em Marcha (2006), O Estado do Mundo (ep. Tarrafal, cm, 2007), Digital Sam In Sam Saek 2007: Memories (ep. The Rabbit Hunters, cm, 2007), Ne change rien (doc., 2009), Our Man (cm, 2010), Centro Historico (ep. Sweet Exorcist, cm. 2012), Cavalo Dinheiro (2014), Vitalina Varela (2019).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Pedro Costa.
Director of photography: Emmanuel Machuel.
Costume designer: Isabel Favila.
Art director: Zé Branco.
Sound: Henri Maikoff.
Editor: Jackie Bastide.
Cast and characters: Vanda Duarte (Clotilde), Nuno Vaz (il padre), Maria Lipkina (Tina), Isabel Ruth (Eduarda), Inês Medeiros (la ragazza), Miguel Sermão (il marito di Clotilde).
Producer: Paulo Branco.
Production company: Madragoa Filmes/Gemini Films.
Director of photography: Emmanuel Machuel.
Costume designer: Isabel Favila.
Art director: Zé Branco.
Sound: Henri Maikoff.
Editor: Jackie Bastide.
Cast and characters: Vanda Duarte (Clotilde), Nuno Vaz (il padre), Maria Lipkina (Tina), Isabel Ruth (Eduarda), Inês Medeiros (la ragazza), Miguel Sermão (il marito di Clotilde).
Producer: Paulo Branco.
Production company: Madragoa Filmes/Gemini Films.