Requiem (1998)
Directed by Alain Tanner

Drama

Film Synopsis

Paul visits Lisbon with the ghost of the great writer Fernando Pessoa. Between midday and midnight, he will encounter, by chance or as a result of tracing his past, a panoply of people, those who are now living in Lisbon or ghosts from the past, in a strange spatial-temporal collage between the living and the dead.

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Film Credits

Director: Alain Tanner
Script: Bernard Comment, Alain Tanner, Antonio Tabucchi (novel)
Cinematographer: Hugues Ryffel
Music: Michel Wintsch
Cast: Francis Frappat (Paul), André Marcon (Pierre), Alexandre Zloto (Father), Cécile Tanner (Christine), Zita Duarte (Gypsy), Canto e Castro (The lame man of the lottery), Márcia Breia (Casimiro's Wife), Raul Solnado (Cemetery Guard), Miguel Yeco (Fernando Pessoa), Lia Gama (Isadora), Bibi Perestrelo (The woman at the lighthouse), Carlos Rodrigues (The newspaper salesman), Paulo Pina (The young junkie), Daniel Martinho (The cab driver), Sérgio Godinho (The doorkeeper of the pension), Rafaela Santos (Viriata), Delphim Miranda (The copyist painter), João Maria Pinto (The train controller), José Manuel Mendes (The butler), Myriam Szabo (Isabel)
Country: Switzerland / France / Portugal
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 104 min

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