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L'ÎLE DES AMOURS (A ILHA DOS AMORES)
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Completed - 169 minutes

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2018 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 1978

Director(s) : Paulo ROCHA
Cast : Luís Miguel CINTRA, Clara JOANA, Zita DUARTE

Synopsis

The period, work, love affairs, life and death of Wenceslau de Moraes, the great Portuguese writer of Asia, born in Lisbon in 1854, who died in Tokushima, Southern Japan, in 1929. “The Island of Love” is taken from the title of the most famous chapter in “The Lusiads”, the epic poem by Luiz Vaz de Camões, great Portuguese poet of the 16th century.

Production

Country(ies) : PORTUGAL, JAPAN

Festivals and Awards

Festival de Cannes 2018 Cannes Classics


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