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Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Film / 1997

Voyage to the Beginning of the World

Directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Drama

★ 6.7/10Audience rating

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.

The story

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.

Cast

Marcello MastroianniManoel Jean-Yves GautierAfonso Leonor SilveiraJudite Diogo DóriaDuarte Isabel de CastroMaria Afonso Cécile Sanz de AlbaCristina José PintoJosé Afonso Adelaide TeixeiraSenhora Isabel RuthOlga Manoel de OliveiraDriver José Maria Vaz da SilvaAssistente Fernando BentoHomem 1
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Mário MoutinhoHomem 2 Jorge MotaHomem 3 Sara AlvesMenina Helder EstevesMenino

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