Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Miguel Nunes | ... | António | |
Margarida Vila-Nova | ... | Maria José | |
Ricardo Pereira | ... | Major | |
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João Pedro Vaz | ... | Capitão |
Simão Cayatte | ... | Alferes Eleutério | |
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Isac Graça | ... | Cabo Hilário |
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Francisco Hestnes | ... | Cabo Carica (as Francisco Hestnes Ferreira) |
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João Pedro Mamede | ... | Alferes Professor |
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Tiago Aldeia | ... | Alferes Ferreira |
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Orlando Sérgio | ... | Catolo |
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David Caracol | ... | Soba Chiúme |
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Miguel Raposo | ... | Enfermeiro Gago Coutinho |
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Gonçalo Carvalho | ... | Cabo Projeccionista |
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Raúl Rosário | ... | Operador Chiúme |
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Cândido Ferreira | ... | Sr. Fontes |
Based on António Lobo Antunes's novel, a collection of letters written by a young soldier, doctor and a aspirant writer, to his wife while he was serving in Angola between 1971 and 1973, during the Portuguese Colonial War, a war between Portugal with its former overseas provinces.
There is an almost constant overlay of a voice reading letters , while a somewhat decent war movie is shown - in the background .
That war movie would have been quite ok, without the tacky - and constant - recitation of terribly corny letters .
Which makes it even more annoying .