Country: India
Year: 2000
Duration: 115'
Lisbon celebrates Saint Anthony, patron saint of the capital and protector of lovers. The election campaign has begun, a feeling of impending crisis is in the air. The police are chasing a group of transvestites. Cato, a young candidate for the mayor's office, is an unscrupulous demagogue. Silvia is a beautiful transvestite, the love she is so desperately searching for is not of this world. One night, she meets Vincent, a dangerous type. Ju, a not-so-young woman who has a photographic studio, protects Silvia. Ju is in danger, but she doesn't know it…
Cast
& Credits
Director and plot: Paulo Rocha.
Screenplay: Paulo Rocha, Jeanne Waltz.
Adaptation and dialogues: Regina Guimarães, Raquel Freire.
Director of photography: Elso Roque.
Art director: Eduardo Filipe Junior.
Costume designer: Manuela Bronze.
Editor: Edgar Feldman.
Sound: Nuno Carvalho.
Music: José Mário Branco.
Cast and characters: Luís Miguel Cintra (Catão), Joana Bárcia (Sílvia), Isabel Ruth (Ju), Melvil Poupaud (Vicente Corvo), Miguel Guilherme (Óscar), António Durães (Infante).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Paulo Rocha, Gérard Vaugeois per Suma Filmes, R. Filipe Folque 49, Lisboa, Portugal, tel. +351-21-3159065, fax +351-21-3159066, e-mail sumafilmes@mail.telepac.pt.
Co-production: Les Filmes de l'Atalante, Paris, France.
Screenplay: Paulo Rocha, Jeanne Waltz.
Adaptation and dialogues: Regina Guimarães, Raquel Freire.
Director of photography: Elso Roque.
Art director: Eduardo Filipe Junior.
Costume designer: Manuela Bronze.
Editor: Edgar Feldman.
Sound: Nuno Carvalho.
Music: José Mário Branco.
Cast and characters: Luís Miguel Cintra (Catão), Joana Bárcia (Sílvia), Isabel Ruth (Ju), Melvil Poupaud (Vicente Corvo), Miguel Guilherme (Óscar), António Durães (Infante).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Paulo Rocha, Gérard Vaugeois per Suma Filmes, R. Filipe Folque 49, Lisboa, Portugal, tel. +351-21-3159065, fax +351-21-3159066, e-mail sumafilmes@mail.telepac.pt.
Co-production: Les Filmes de l'Atalante, Paris, France.