A Ilha de Moraes (1984)

ALL 09/10/1984 (pt) Documentary 100 Min
  • Release
    09/10/1984
  • Production
    Suma Filmes
  • Rotten tomato
    52%
  • Original title
    A Ilha de Moraes
  • Original language
    pt
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

This film, made as a "twin" of A ilha dos amores, was planned as a poetic documentary on the enigmatic life of Wenceslau de Moraes (1855-1929), the great Portuguese writer who lived in the Far East. Verbal testimony, photographs, manuscripts, images of Lisbon, Macao, Kobe and Tokushima in Moraes' time are set side by side with A ilha dos amores and with de Moraes' writings. The director, Paulo Rocha, visited places where Moraes was still remembered, interviewed the writers descendants, consulted archives, rummaged through memories, appointment books, postcards, diaries and calendars from the private life of the 19th century. And above all he set out on a new journey, from Lisbon to Macao to Kobe until he reached Tokushima, where Moraes lived through the final ruin of his life and where Rocha tracks down, between the city and the cemetery, the living presence of places and the memories of individuals.

  1. Paulo Rocha

    Director

  2. Story



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A Ilha de Moraes (1984) 100 Min

ALL 09/10/1984 (pt)
Documentary
  • Release 09/10/1984
  • Production
    Suma Filmes
  • Original title A Ilha de Moraes
  • pt
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

This film, made as a "twin" of A ilha dos amores, was planned as a poetic documentary on the enigmatic life of Wenceslau de Moraes (1855-1929), the great Portuguese writer who lived in the Far East. Verbal testimony, photographs, manuscripts, images of Lisbon, Macao, Kobe and Tokushima in Moraes' time are set side by side with A ilha dos amores and with de Moraes' writings. The director, Paulo Rocha, visited places where Moraes was still remembered, interviewed the writers descendants, consulted archives, rummaged through memories, appointment books, postcards, diaries and calendars from the private life of the 19th century. And above all he set out on a new journey, from Lisbon to Macao to Kobe until he reached Tokushima, where Moraes lived through the final ruin of his life and where Rocha tracks down, between the city and the cemetery, the living presence of places and the memories of individuals.

  1. Paulo Rocha

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Katsuhiko Takemura, Masaji Kurokawa, Takao Saotome

    Editor

  4. Etsuko Takano, Manuel Guanilho

    Producer