Country: Portugal
Year: 2013
Duration: 70'
In the summer of 1969, four friends rode on a raft down the rivers Zêzere and Tago, which flow from the middle of Portugal into the ocean. Forty years later, one of their sons writes their adventure in a book of poems as a metaphor of Portuguese travel literature from the 16th and 17th century. He decides to change direction and turn words into reality: he invites three friends to undertake that very same journey, and he asks his brother to film it.
Biography
film director
João Manso
João Manso (Almeirim, Portugal, 1980), graduate in film, video and multimedia Communication in Lisbon University, works since 2007 as a director, assistant director and freelance video editor in film, television and advertising. He directed and edited short films, documentaries and music videos. Bibliografia is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
João Manso:
De quoi tu parles quand tu parles d’amour? (cm, 2003), Onde Estão os Touros? (cm, doc., 2007), O Amor Acontece (cm, 2011).
João Manso, Miguel Manso:
Bibliografia (doc., 2013).
Miguel Manso
Miguel Manso (Santarém, Portugal, 1979) is a writer; he has published eight books of poetry, among them Santo Subito, Ensinar o Caminho ao Diabo, Um Lugar a Menos. He collaborated with the theater company Cão Solteiro and this is his debut as director.
Declaration
film director
“The great subject of the journey travels within the universal literature. It is, mutually, in the Portuguese literature genesis, fed, yet in the modern epoch, by the contribution of the Discoveries. The journey may as well be understood by one other aspect included therein: more than a translation in space implying movement, it will be the crossover of an interior distance, where the longing for a change and the demand of experience and senses, coincide. Thus, we intend to show the construction, by four people, of an archaic raft and its consequent sailing, starting from the geodetic heart of the country until the last and coastal river mouth of its capital.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA, PRODUTTORI
João Manso, Miguel Manso
FOTOGRAFIA
Takashi Sugimoto
MONTAGGIO
Tomás Baltazar, João Manso, Miguel Manso
MUSICA
Tiago Sousa
SUONO
Nuno Morão
INTERPRETI
António Poppe, João Manso, Maria Leite, Miguel Manso, Natxo Checa, Tiago Sousa, Vasco Gato
COPRODUZIONE
Camone - Associacão Cultural, RTP2
João Manso, Miguel Manso
FOTOGRAFIA
Takashi Sugimoto
MONTAGGIO
Tomás Baltazar, João Manso, Miguel Manso
MUSICA
Tiago Sousa
SUONO
Nuno Morão
INTERPRETI
António Poppe, João Manso, Maria Leite, Miguel Manso, Natxo Checa, Tiago Sousa, Vasco Gato
COPRODUZIONE
Camone - Associacão Cultural, RTP2
