''My Case'' ( pt, O meu caso) is a 1986 Portuguese drama- fantasy 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 Wo ...

. It entered the main competition at the

43rd Venice International Film Festival The 43rd annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 30 August to 10 September, 1986. It was the last edition directed by Gian Luigi Rondi. Jury The following people comprised the 1986 jury: * Alain Robbe-Grillet (head of jury) (Fran ...

. The film is based on the play of the same name by

José Régio José Maria dos Reis Pereira, better known by the pen name José Régio (17 September 1901, Vila do Conde – 22 December 1969, Vila do Conde), was a Portuguese writer who spent most of his life in Portalegre (1929 to 1962). He was the brother ...

, but also on the

Book of Job The Book of Job (; hbo, אִיּוֹב, ʾIyyōḇ), or simply Job, is a book found in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and is the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Scholars ar ...

as well as texts by

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

Cast

* Bulle Ogier as Actrice # 1 *

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'' (1982) ...

as L'Intrus * Axel Bogousslavsky as L'Employé * Fred Personne as L'Auteur * Wladimir Ivanovsky as Le spectateur * Héloïse Mignot as Actrice # 2 *

Grégoire Oestermann Grégoire is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname / Family name *Alexandre Grégoire (1922–2001), Haitian painter * Augustus Gregoire (1936–1972), Dominican cricketer *Christine Gregoire (born 1947), ...

as Le projectionniste

References

External links

* 1986 films 1980s French-language films 1986 drama films Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira Films produced by Paulo Branco Portuguese drama films {{1980s-drama-film-stub