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The Mystery of Sintra (2007)

The Mystery of Sintra (2007)

Mystery

A critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century.

Release Date: 2007, May 3
Directors: Jorge Paixão da Costa
Countries: Brazil, Portugal
Production: Animatógrafo II, Moonshot Pictures, Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia, Agência Nacional do Cinema - ANCINE
Cast: Giselle Itié, James Weber Brown, Carmen Santos, Pedro Efe, Rogério Samora, Carla Chambel, João Saboga, Paulo Manso, João Lagarto, Sérgio Godinho, António Pedro Cerdeira, Ivo Canelas

Overview:

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.

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