Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.
Assignment Redhead
1956
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Jackie Brown
1997
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The Name of the Rose
1986
7
Le Salaire de la peur
1953
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East of Eden
1955
7
The Outsiders
1983
7
Der blaue Engel
1930
7
Stand by Me
1986
7
The Godfather
1972
8
The Godfather Part II
1974
8
About a Boy
2002
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Oliver Twist
2005
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Die Blechtrommel
1979
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Ben-Hur
1959
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Contact
1997
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The Bridges of Madison County
1995
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Manhattan
1979
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Finding Forrester
2000
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Murder She Said
1961
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Murder at the Gallop
1963
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