A Divina Comedia

Plot

In this symbolic and philosophically weighty film, all of the inhabitants of a Portuguese mental asylum suffer from religious delusions of one kind or another -- even the cynic who denies the value of any religions at all. One couple re-enacts the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and then the woman who played at being Eve plays at being St. Teresa de Avila. Another man thinks he's a character from a Dostoyevsky novel, and yet another claims to have in his possession a fifth gospel from the Bible. Everyone has a point of view and is not shy about stating it, defending it in debate with the others with great sincerity, though (the reviewers claimed) with very little elegance or wit. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Cast

• Maria de Medeiros - Sonya
• Luis Miguel Cintra - The Prophet
• Mario Viegas - The philosopher
• Leonor Silveira - Eve

Diogo Dória - Ivan; Paulo Matos - Jesus; Ruy Furtado - The director; Carlos Gomez; Jose Wallenstein; Cremilda Gil; Miguel Guilherme; Julia Buisel; Laura Soveral

Credit

Manoel de Oliveira - Director, Manoel de Oliveira - Editor, Valerie Loiseleux - Editor, Ivan Kozelka - Cinematographer, Paulo Branco - Producer, Manoel de Oliveira - Screenwriter

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