''No, or the Vain Glory of Command'' ( pt, Non, ou a Vã Gloria de Mandar) is a 1990 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 ...

. The film, starring Luís Miguel Cintra and Miguel Guilherme, depicts a series of defeats from the entire military history of Portugal – the assassination of

Viriathus Viriathus (also spelled Viriatus; known as Viriato in Portuguese and Spanish; died 139 BC) was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of western Hispania (as the Romans called it) or w ...

, the

Battle of Toro The Battle of Toro was part of the War of the Castilian Succession, fought on 1 March 1476, near the city of Toro, between the Castilian-Aragonese troops of the Catholic Monarchs and the Portuguese-Castilian forces of Afonso V and Prince Joh ...

, the failed attempt of Iberian Union under Afonso of Portugal and Isabella of Spain and the

Battle of Alcácer Quibir The Battle of Alcácer Quibir (also known as "Battle of Three Kings" ( ar, معركة الملوك الثلاثة) or "Battle of Wadi al-Makhazin" ( ar, معركة وادي المخازن) in Morocco) was fought in northern Morocco, near the t ...

– and the Lusiads episode of the Island of love, which are told through flashbacks as a professorish Portuguese lieutenant recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African overseas territory in 1974, during the

Portuguese Colonial War The Portuguese Colonial War ( pt, Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War () or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation (), and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambican War of Independence, ...

(1961–74). He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, while the little contingent suffers surprise attacks by groups of independentist guerrillas. It was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast

* Luís Miguel Cintra – 2º Lt. Cabrita, Viriato, Dom João of Portugal * Diogo Dória – Soldier Manuel, Lusitanian

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, Dom João's cousin * Miguel Guilherme – Soldier Salvador, Lusitanian warrior, Alcácer warrior * Luís Lucas – Cpl. Brito, Lusitanian warrior, Alcácer nobleman * Carlos Gomes – Soldier Pedro, Alcácer warrior * António S. Lopes – Soldier, Lusitanian warrior, Alcácer warrior * Mateus Lorena – Dom Sebastião * Lola Forner – Princess Dona Isabel * Raúl Fraire – Dom Afonso * Ruy de Carvalho – Preacher at funeral, Suicidal warrior (as Rui de Carvalho) * Teresa Menezes –

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(as Teresa Meneses) * Leonor Silveira – Tethys * Paulo Matos – Radio operator,

Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (; ; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope (1497–1499) was the first to link ...

, Camões * Francisco Baião – Prince Dom João * Luís Mascarenhas – Dom Afonso V * Duarte de Almeida – Baron of Alvito

References

External links

* 1990 films 1990s historical adventure films Portuguese historical adventure films 1990s Portuguese-language films 1990 drama films Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira Adventure films based on actual events Films produced by Paulo Branco {{Portugal-film-stub