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A True and Faithful Account (1989)

A True and Faithful Account (1989)

Drama
Release Date: 1989, June 22
Directors: Margarida Gil
Countries: Portugal
Production: Monteiro & Gil, Monteiro & Gil, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC), Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC)
Cast: Laura Soveral, João Pedro Bénard, Luis Santos, Adelaide Teixeira, Conceição Guerra, Jorge Pinto, Cremilda Gil, António Sequeira Lopes, Jorge Rolla, Aurora Gaia, Sónia Guimarães, Joana Siza

Overview:

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violence and erratic behaviour. Antonia’s fortune is the first sacrifice made by the young wife. Fascinated by the man who humiliates and ill-treats her, she follows him in a pilgrimage to increasingly barren lands, to increasingly less hospitable houses.