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Sostiene Pereira
''Sostiene Pereira'' (''Pereira prétend'' in French, ''Afirma Pereira'' in Portugal and ''Páginas da revolução'' in Brazil) is a 1995 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. It is based on Antonio Tabucchi's novel '' Sostiene Pereira''. Marcello Mastroianni won the David di Donatello as Best Actor. Plot In Lisbon, during the António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo dictatorship, Pereira ( Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist who works in the culture section of a newspaper, discovers the real dark side of the regime when he meets and helps an anti-fascist young man, Monteiro Rossi ( Stefano Dionisi). Cast * Marcello Mastroianni - Pereira * Joaquim de Almeida - Manuel * Daniel Auteuil - Dr. Cardoso * Stefano Dionisi - Monteiro Rossi * Nicoletta Braschi - Marta * Marthe Keller - Mrs. Delgado * Teresa Madruga - Portiera * Nicolau Breyner - Father António * Filipe Ferrer - Silva * João Grosso - Police Chief * Mário Viegas - Newspaper Editor * Manuela Cassola Ma ...
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Roberto Faenza
Roberto Faenza (born 21 February 1943) is an Italian film director. Born in Turin in 1943, Faenza received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Career Faenza made his directing debut in 1968 with the international success, ''Escalation (1968 Italian film), Escalation'', a film that describes the different sides of power through the relationship between a middle-class father and his hippie son. Immediately after that he directed ''H2S'', an angry apology of the 1968 movement, seized two days after its release and not distributed since. Upon this sequestration he travelled to the United States to teach at the Federal City College of Washington DC. In 1978 he directed ''Forza Italia!'', a ferocious satire on the power of the Italian Christian Democrat party covering thirty years of Italian political history. The film was withdrawn from the theatres on the day Aldo Moro, president of the Christian Democrats, was kidnapped, and re ...
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Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, drama ...
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Filipe Ferrer
Filipe is a common first name in Portuguese-speaking countries. It is a Portuguese and Galician spelling of the name Philip (aka Phillip) (the name is spelled Felipe in Spanish and in archaic Portuguese orthography). Famous Filipes Royalty There are several Spanish kings who were named Felipe. The three Felipes that also ruled over Portugal were known in Portugal as Filipe (with an "i"): * Filipe I of Portugal (II of Spain) * Filipe II of Portugal (III of Spain) * Filipe III of Portugal (IV of Spain) *Filipe Faria (Descendant of House of Braganza royalty) Sports *Filipe Luís Kasmirski Brazilian footballer. Other *Filipe Nery Xavier Filipe Nery Xavier (17 March 1801 - 26 May 1875), sometimes spelt Felipe, Felippe, Filippe or Neri, was a Portuguese administrator, littérateur and historian of Goan origin. He was descended from a "very distinguished" Gaud Saraswat Brahmin fam ... (1801-1875), Goan-Português administrator and historian {{given name Portuguese masculine giv ...
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Nicolau Breyner
João Nicolau de Melo Breyner Moreira Lopes GOIH GOM (30 July 1940 – 14 March 2016), better known as Nicolau Breyner, was a Portuguese actor, screenwriter, producer, director and television host. He was one of the most well-known figures in Portuguese television and cinema, having performed in more than 170 films and television series in his career. Early life Nicolau Breyner was born in Serpa, Portugal, on 30 July 1940. His parents were Nicolau Moreira Lopes (1915–1965) and Augusta Pereira da Silva de Melo Breyner Pereira (1920–2003). Breyner and his family moved to Lisbon when he was 9 years old. There he studied at the Camões Secondary School. He studied singing and was part of the Portuguese Musical Youth chorus. He first enrolled in a Law school but later switched to vocal studies at the Conservatório Nacional. He initially pursued opera singing, but opted for theater after finding that he did not have the discipline required for opera. Career Breyner's acting d ...
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Teresa Madruga
Teresa Madruga (born 18 March 1953) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in 71 films and television shows since 1977. She starred in the 1983 film ''In the White City'', which was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Francisca'' (1981) * ''In the White City'' (1983) * ''Dead Man's Seat'' (1984) * '' Manoel's Destinies'' (1985) * '' Day of Despair'' (1992) * ''Abraham's Valley'' (1993) * ''Sostiene Pereira'' (1996) * '' Get a Life'' (2001) * ''Tabu'' (2012) * ''Imagine'' (2012) * ''Will-o'-the-Wisp In folklore, a will-o'-the-wisp, will-o'-wisp or ''ignis fatuus'' (, plural ''ignes fatui''), is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes. The phenomenon is known in English folk belief, ... (Fogo-Fátuo)'' - 2022 References External links * 1953 births Living people Portuguese film actresses People from Faial Island Portuguese television actresses 20th-century ...
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Marthe Keller
Marthe Keller (born 28 January 1945) is a Swiss actress and opera director. She is perhaps best known for her role in the film '' Marathon Man'' (1976), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Career Early years Keller studied ballet as a child, but stopped after a skiing accident at age 16. She changed to acting, and worked in Berlin at the Schiller Theater and the Berliner Ensemble. Film work Keller's earliest film appearances were in ''Funeral in Berlin'' (1966, in which she was not credited) and the German film ''Wilder Reiter GmbH'' (1967). She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including ''Un Cave'' (1971), ''La Raison du Plus Fou'' (1973) and ''Toute Une Vie/And Now My Love'' (1974). Her most famous American film appearances are her Golden Globe-nominated performance as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in '' Marathon Man'' (1976) and her performance as a ''femme fatale'' Palestinian terrorist who leads an attack on the Super Bowl in '' Black Su ...
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Estado Novo (Portugal)
The ''Estado Novo'' (, lit. "New State") was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from the ''Ditadura Nacional'' ("National Dictatorship") formed after the ''coup d'état'' of 28 May 1926 against the democratic but unstable First Republic. Together, the ''Ditadura Nacional'' and the ''Estado Novo'' are recognised by historians as the Second Portuguese Republic ( pt, Segunda República Portuguesa). The ''Estado Novo'', greatly inspired by conservative and autocratic ideologies, was developed by António de Oliveira Salazar, who was President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 until illness forced him out of office in 1968. The ''Estado Novo'' was one of the longest-surviving authoritarian regimes in Europe in the 20th century. Opposed to communism, socialism, syndicalism, anarchism, liberalism and anti-colonialism, the regime was conservative, corporatist, and nationalist in nature, defending Portugal's traditional Catholicism. Its policy envisa ...
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António De Oliveira Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar (, , ; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese dictator who served as President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the regime as the ("New State"), a corporatist dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1933 until 1974. Salazar was a political economy professor at University of Coimbra. Salazar entered public life as finance minister with the support of President Óscar Carmona after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état. The military of 1926 saw themselves as the guardians of the nation in the wake of the instability and perceived failure of the First Republic, but they had no clue how to address the critical challenges of the hour. Within one year, armed with special powers, Salazar balanced the budget and stabilized Portugal's currency. Salazar produced the first of many budgetary surpluses. He promoted civilian administration in the authoritarian regime when the ...
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Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the List of urban areas of the European Union, 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas
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About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula, after Madrid and Barcelona. It represents approximately 27% of the country's population.
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David Di Donatello
The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award categories, as of 2021. The industry-voted awards are considered the Italian equivalent of the American Academy Awards and rank among top-tier awards such as the Premio Regia Televisiva for television, the Premio Ubu for stage performances, the Sanremo Music Festival, and the annual Venice Film Festival, which hosts the Golden Lion film award. History The David di Donatello film awards follow the same criteria as the American Academy Awards.) The ceremony was established in 1955 in order to honour the best of each year's Italian and foreign films, and first awarded in Rome on 5 July 1956. Similar prizes had already existed in Italy for about a decade, such as the Nastro d.'Gentro, but these were voted on by film critics and journalists. Ho ...
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Sostiene Pereira (novel)
''Pereira Maintains'' ( it, Sostiene Pereira) is a 1994 novel by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. It is also known as ''Pereira Declares'' and ''Declares Pereira''. Its story follows Pereira, a journalist for the culture column of a small Lisbon newspaper, as he struggles with his conscience and the restrictions of the dictatorial regime of Antonio Salazar. Antonio Tabucchi won the Premio Campiello, Viareggio Prize and Premio Scanno in 1994 for the novel. It was adapted into a film, also called ''Sostiene Pereira'', in 1996. Plot The novel is set in Portugal in the summer of 1938, during Salazar's dictatorship. Pereira, an old journalist on a Portuguese newspaper - the ''Lisboa'' - who loves literature and practically gives his life to it. When he reads an essay written by a young man about death, he calls the young man, whose name is Monteiro Rossi, to ask him to write "advance obituaries" about great writers who could die at any moment. Not having ever been much concerned wit ...
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Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi (; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of ''saudade'', of ''fiction'' and of the '' heteronyms''. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet. His books and essays have been translated in 18 countries. Together with his wife, Maria José de Lancastre, he translated many works by Pessoa into Italian and has written a book of essays and a comedy about the writer. Tabucchi was awarded the French prize "Médicis étranger" for '' Indian Nocturne'' (''Notturno indiano'') and the premio Campiello, and the Aristeion Prize for ''Sostiene Pereira ...
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