PORTUGUESE CINEMA DAYS IN BERLIN 2024: PILGRIMAGE

PORTUGUESE CINEMA DAYS IN BERLIN 2024: PILGRIMAGE

Originaltitel: Peregrinação

108 Min. | PT | 2017

Sprache: OmeU | Originalsprache: Portuguese et al.

Regie: João Botelho

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the 25 April revolution, the festival opens with a musical drama about the Portuguese maritime journey, which opened a cycle of half a millennium that would end with decolonization after the 1974 revolution.
Peregrinação: A skilful and brilliant, carnal and violent account of Fernão Mendes Pinto’s historic journeys to the Orient in the 16th century: penitent, ambassador, trafficker and slave, ’13 times captive and 16 or 17 times sold‘.  With choral interpretations of ‚Por Este Rio Acima‘, Fausto’s album that profoundly marked the music in the 1980s in Portugal.

OmU = Originalversion mit Untertiteln
OV = Originalversion ohne Untertitel
OmeU = Originalversion mit englischen Untertiteln
DF = deutschsprachige Fassung