''Magic Mirror'' ( pt, Espelho Mágico) is a 2005 Portuguese film directed by
Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wor ...
. It was shown in competition at the 2005
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival h ...
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Cast
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Leonor Silveira
Leonor da Silveira Moreno e Lemos Gomes (born 28 October 1970) is a Portuguese film actress who made her film debut in '' The Cannibals'' for director Manoel de Oliveira in 1988. She appeared in most of Oliveira's subsequent films.
She is the d ...
as Alfreda
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Ricardo Trêpa
Ricardo Oliveira de Sousa Trêpa (born 28 October 1972) is a Portuguese film actor. He has appeared in over 25 films and several TV shows since 1990. He is the grandson of Portuguese film director Manoel de Oliveira and has appeared in most of ...
as José Luciano / Touro Azul
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Luís Miguel Cintra
Luís Miguel Valle Cintra (born 29 April 1949) is a Portuguese actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1970. In 1973 Cintra founded the Teatro da Cornucópia with Jorge Silva Melo.
Selected filmography
* '' A Ilha dos Amores'' (198 ...
as Filipe Quinta
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Leonor Baldaque as Vicenta / Abril
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Glória de Matos as Nurse Hilda
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Isabel Ruth
Isabel Ruth (born 6 April 1940) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films since 1963. She starred in '' River of Gold'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Selected filmogr ...
as Celsa Adelaide
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Adelaide Teixeira as Queta
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Diogo Dória
Diogo Dória (born 16 April 1953) is a Portuguese film actor who has worked in France and Portugal and is most associated with his films for director Manoel de Oliveira.
Selected filmography
* 1981 ''Francisca''
* 1985 '' The Satin Slipper''
* 1 ...
as Police Commissioner
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José Wallenstein as Américo
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Maestro Atalaya as Prof. Oboé
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P. João Marques as Priest Feliciano (as Padre João Marques)
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Marisa Paredes
María Luisa Paredes Bartolomé (born 3 April 1946), known professionally as Marisa Paredes, is a Spanish actress.
Biography
Paredes began acting in 1960 film, '' 091 Policia al Habla'' (''091, Police Speaking!'') She became a teen idol across ...
as Monja
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Michel Piccoli
Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide vari ...
as Prof. Heschel
See also
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Cinema of Portugal
The Cinema of Portugal started with the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. Cinema was introduced in Portugal in 1896 with the screening of foreign films and the first Portuguese film was '' Saída do Pessoal Operário da Fábrica Co ...
References
External links
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2005 drama films
2005 films
Films based on works by Agustina Bessa-Luís
Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Portuguese drama films
2000s Portuguese-language films
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