The Signalman

Name: O Sinaleiro
Genre: Short, Thriller
Released: 2016-10-01
Duration: 15 min
Rating: 4.2
Cast: Fernando Teixeira

Original title: O Sinaleiro

20152015
15m

IMDb RATING

4.2/10

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Short

Thriller

A railroad signalman is haunted by a series of strange events in this adaptation of a Charles Dickens short story. Are they truly ghostly manifestations, or the signalman's psychological res... Read allA railroad signalman is haunted by a series of strange events in this adaptation of a Charles Dickens short story. Are they truly ghostly manifestations, or the signalman's psychological response to his isolation and repetitive work?A railroad signalman is haunted by a series of strange events in this adaptation of a Charles Dickens short story. Are they truly ghostly manifestations, or the signalman's psychological response to his isolation and repetitive work?

IMDb RATING

4.2/10

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Director
- Daniel Augusto
Writers
- Daniel Augusto(adaptation by)
- Charles Dickens(original writer)
Star
- Fernando Teixeira

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Awards
- 8 wins & 1 nomination

"The Signalman" is liberally inspired on an eponymous Charles Dickens's short story never filmed before. It is one of the most important fantastic tales in the history of literature, according to the writer Italo Calvino. It is a tense story that takes place at a lonely train station where a man finds himself confronting his inner fears and the possible presence of the supernatural.

Genres
- Short
- Thriller
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For Italo Calvino, "The Signalman" is among the most important narratives in fantastic literature. In this writer's view, the essence of this style lies in the problem of understanding whether what we see in such stories is a hallucination or the terrifying face of the ordinary reality. Such statement was the basis upon which director Daniel Augusto wrote, directed and edited the film.