The Old House

Original title: O Casarão

20212021
1h 12m

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An old house withers away at the heart of a village ripped in half by a road where cars no longer stop. During the dictatorship, this building was the most progressive Catholic seminary in P... Read allAn old house withers away at the heart of a village ripped in half by a road where cars no longer stop. During the dictatorship, this building was the most progressive Catholic seminary in Portugal. António, the front door neighbor, was brought up and raised a family in its shado... Read allAn old house withers away at the heart of a village ripped in half by a road where cars no longer stop. During the dictatorship, this building was the most progressive Catholic seminary in Portugal. António, the front door neighbor, was brought up and raised a family in its shadow. Ever since the Dominican priests left, he has been its most faithful caretaker - keeper... Read all

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Director
- Filipe Araujo
Writer
- Filipe Araujo
Stars
- Luís Alves de Matos
- Filipe Araujo(voice)
- Sérgio Diamantino

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António Oliveira in The Old House (2021)

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The seminarist narration text was extracted and edited from diaries, letters, posts and notes by the Aldeia Nova's former seminarists Fernando Vaz, Mário Rocha Creoulo, Horácio Araújo, José Ribeiro, Eduardo Bento, and Manuel Mendes. It also features an excerpt from the literary work "Happy People in Tears", gently provided by their colleague, the author João de Melo.