The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
Cast
Fernando Cabral Martins
Fernando Pessoa
André Gomes
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Juliet Berto
Helena
Jorge Silva Melo
Narrator / Fausto
Manoel de Oliveira
Padre
Isabel Ruth
Americana Louca
João Perry
Ricardo
Francisco Pinhão Botelho
Baby (uncredited)
Leonor Pinhão
Confissão de Lúcio: Marta
Isabel de Castro
Marinheiro: 2.º Veladora
Zita Duarte
Marinheiro: 1.º Veladora
António Barahona
Leitores: Pessoa ortónimo (voice)
Joaquim Furtado
Leitores: Álvaro de Campos (voice)
Elsa Wallencamp
Freira
Osório Mateus
Leitura de Poemas de Sá-Carneiro
Nuno Vieira de Almeida
Pianisa
Crew
João Botelho
Director, Screenplay, Editor
Manuela Viegas
Editor
Acácio de Almeida
Director of Photography
Carlos Ferreiro
Assistant Director
António-Pedro Vasconcelos
Executive Producer
Paulo Branco
Producer
Ana Jotta
Production Design
Jean-Paul Loublier
Sound Mixer
Joaquim Pinto
Sound
Vasco Pimentel
Sound
Jorge Arriagada
Original Music Composer
Helena Domingos
Dialogue
