Killing the Saudades

6.0 (4 votes)• 1988• 85m•Released

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Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...

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Languages: Portuguese

Director: Fernando Lopes

Starring Cast: Rogério Samora, Teresa Madruga, Pedro Efe, Eunice Muñoz, João Cabral, Manuel Cavaco

Cast

Rogério Samora

Abel

Teresa Madruga

Teresa

Pedro Efe

Pedro

Eunice Muñoz

Grandmother

João Cabral

Pedro

Manuel Cavaco

Vasco

Laura Soveral

Mother

Canto e Castro

Father

António Reis

Júlio

Alexandre de Sousa

Heliodoro

Lurdes Rodrigues

Linda

Carlos Saboga

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