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Longe da Vista (1999)

ALL 04/02/1999 (pt) Drama 82 Min
  • Release
    04/02/1999
  • Production
    Madragoa Filmes
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    Longe da Vista
  • Original language
    pt
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.

  2. Story

  3. Jean Dubreuil

    Editor

  4. Paulo Branco

    Producer



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Longe da Vista (1999) 82 Min

ALL 04/02/1999 (pt)
Drama
  • Release 04/02/1999
  • Production
    Madragoa Filmes
  • Original title Longe da Vista
  • pt
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.

  1. João Mário Grilo

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Jean Dubreuil

    Editor

  4. Paulo Branco

    Producer



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