O Facínora

Paulo Abreu

IndieLisboa 2013 • Cinema emergente, National Competition

Portugal, Fiction, 2012, 26′

A priest tries to fight the temptations of love, but ends up becoming a villain that terrorizes a city. An homage to silent film, this is also a new visit to a film that Conrad Wilhelm Meyersick, a German engineer and filmmaker, made while visiting Guimarães, in 1920. (A. P.)

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